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My suggestion: read the actual text and while doing so, note the weaselwords. Here's my list: implies, suggests, fair to assume, suggested, were interpreted as
by zgluck 3y ago
My suggestion: read the actual text and while doing so, note the weaselwords.
Here's my list:
implies, suggests, fair to assume, suggested, were interpreted as
How does this get published in Nature [Open Access]?
- paddw 3y agoWhat are you expecting for any article about ~5000 years ago
- zgluck 3y agoSomething less certain than the headline
- softwaredoug 3y agoWhen I got my history degree I was told that qualifiers were often GOOD as they don’t overpromise our degree of certainty. Grammarly has a good article on qualifier usage and over usage https://www.grammarly.com/blog/qualifiers/#:~:text=%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8BA%20qualifier%20is,of%20writing%20sound%20lazily%20constructed https://www.grammarly.com/blog/qualifiers/#:~:text=%E2%80%8B....
- throwaway72762 3y agoIf a paper doesn't have that many caveats it won't get published. Scientists, good ones anyway, are rarely able to speak definitively about almost anything, especially something as hard to study as this.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoExcept for global warming, vaccinations, lab leaks, phrenology, psychiatry, bloodletting, safety of thalidomide, perhaps?
- wokearch 3y ago[dead]
- dec0dedab0de 3y agoI tend to assume that anyone who doesnt qualify their statements with so called weaselwords is lying to me. But I definitely think that discussing anything from so long ago better use this type of language, because there is no way to be sure
- brigandish 3y ago> I tend to assume that anyone who doesnt qualify their statements with so called weaselwords is lying to me. In an academic paper?
- dec0dedab0de 3y agoIn anything that can't 100% be proven. Be honest when you mean 'should' and 'suggests' instead of 'is' and 'implies'
- SantalBlush 3y ago>note the weaselwords. Here's my list: implies, suggests, fair to assume, suggested, were interpreted as They're not weasel words, they're how these papers are supposed to be written. These words are more accurate than saying, "this proves," which would be a lie.