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It behooves the authors to present the limitations of the study. Lay people, unfortunately the majority, will interpret this to be definitive.
by hackernewds 4y ago
It behooves the authors to present the limitations of the study. Lay people, unfortunately the majority, will interpret this to be definitive.
- thfuran 4y ago>Lay people, unfortunately the majority, will interpret this to be definitive. They're not the target audience of scientific papers.
- feet 4y agoOn top of that, the linked article is simply a press release and not the research paper itself. Papers usually list limitations and such, that's very normal
- salahaldden422 4y ago
- gregoryl 4y agoThis leads me to a different path. Some (most?) papers require an almost absurd amount of context; in the extremes, single digit audiences with the knowledge to understand. Perhaps putting that context into publications would be more effective?
- t6jvcereio 4y ago> Perhaps putting that context into publications would be more effective? It's called introduction
- swatcoder 4y agoYou’re describing a pop science book, and of course people write those too. But research publishing is a traditionally internal dialog among people who ostensibly spent years being inducted into a common contextual foundation. Post-web journalism and open access publishing might be challenging that tradition, but the answer is probably not to staple an introductory textbook to every paper.
- School-Cotton 4y agoThen all scientific papers would be thousands of pages long.
- gregoryl 4y agoAhh, the dangers of writing a comment whilst distracted. I meant rather to include the context you need to have yourself; something akin to "you must be this tall to ride", "you need a doctorate in physics to have a chance of understanding this properly".