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Thats fine, just keep your personal preferences out of my labs' white paper submissions. "Number 16" is valuable, in that it communicates the fact that the spe
by aa-jv 2y ago
Thats fine, just keep your personal preferences out of my labs' white paper submissions.
"Number 16" is valuable, in that it communicates the fact that the specimen involved is one of a set of at least 16 individual data points. "Brenda" doesn't communicate anything much more than, perhaps, the researcher is bored with their work and wants to have fun instead of doing real science. Besides which, this is a human name, so is it referring to a human or a spider?
Scientific rigour is important. Fanciful notions of cultural joviality, less so.