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Extremely poor wording in the first page or so: > This study showed Toxoplasma-infected and Toxoplasma-free participants of our cross-sectional study differed
by arwhatever 4y ago
Extremely poor wording in the first page or so:
> This study showed Toxoplasma-infected and Toxoplasma-free participants of our cross-sectional study differed in three of four factors of PI34, scoring higher in Tribalism and lower in Cultural liberalism and Anti-Authoritarianism.
- Is the author referring to the infected or to the free group here?
> The stress-coping hypothesis suggests that many toxoplasmosis-associated changes, e.g., higher extroversion in infected women and lower in men, or lower suspiciousness of infected women and higher in suspiciousness of infected men (all in comparison to non-infected peers) can be interpreted as gender-dependent stress coping reaction.
- Using “among infected men/women” in place of “of” would add a lot of clarity here.
I believe I’ll stop reading the article.
- krzyk 4y agoI believe the authors are Czech, so I would give them a bit of slack regarding the language, they are not native English speakers.
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- arwhatever 4y agoGood to keep in mind, and I shouldn’t be overly harsh. I considered the possibility and discarded it, given that the word choices so strongly resemble poorly-spoken native English speakers whom I have personally known. But I could have confirmed by looking.