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>> More than 700 thousand human deaths > I don’t think I’ve ever in my 40 and nine years on the planet seen numbers of this scale written in mixed numeric and
by ColinWright 6y ago
>> More than 700 thousand human deaths
> I don’t think I’ve ever in my 40 and nine years on the planet seen numbers of this scale written in mixed numeric and textual form.
In my 50 and nine years on this planet, I have.
> There are a several other quality issues in the abstract ...
It's a pre-print, and the author's first language is not English. Some people struggle with a second language, and I think it's commendable that someone is willing to make their results available.
- xbar 6y agoI like the author, the idea and the article. It will not stop me from highlighting one of my favorite clauses: "there are hundreds of different creams, devices, and other devices. "
- ColinWright 6y agoIt has the feel of being machine translated. A short time ago I saw an example of three different verbs in one language being translated into the same verb in English ... I'll see if I can find it. I suspect in the author's first language the first "devices" was something specific that got a generic label in English.