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I wish articles like this would provide more detail (such as a link to the study itself). At the moment I don't know how to act on this information. It was a su

I wish articles like this would provide more detail (such as a link to the study itself). At the moment I don't know how to act on this information. It was a survey, so what exactly were the questions? How were "those who keep a check on their frustrations" determined? Lacking that, it's difficult to guess which way causation worked. Were these frustrated people failing because they didn't express anger, or were they more likely to reply that they had unexpressed anger because they were not doing well personally and professionally? Or maybe the causation is that successful people feel more free to express themselves while unsuccessful people don't like to draw attention to themselves. The BBC article on the same study (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7918622.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7918622.stm) mentioned that "Outright fury was destructive, the researchers added", which sounds like an important caveat. If I were convinced that this survey shows that anger leads to creating value, I'd like more detail on constructive ways to express anger.

mechanical_fish 18y ago
Why, look, it's another chance to flog my pet peeve! Here's the problem: The citation in the news article looks like this: A recent study published in the Journal of Social Behaviour and Personality... Visit the page of that journal and you can see a link to their "journal online". But the page at the end of the link is hilariously awful: Your university's subscription to this Journal has just become even better value! Notice the complete lack of useful facilities for the general public -- and just about everybody else, for that matter. I can't even find a browseable homepage of the latest issue of this journal. There's a search box that I can type in, but I can't find a recent reference to the only scientist mentioned in the news article. When I do click on a random paper from the journal I can't read it unless I buy it, and I can't buy it or even see the price without registering. They say expressing anger is good for your career. So let me advance my career by noting that the existing for-pay scientific publishing industry is a collection of hopelessly-obsolete parasitic middlemen that actively harms science education by keeping primary sources out of sight of the public, and that we should all lobby to have our government's tax-supported research grants come with a requirement to publish in open-access journals: http://www.plos.org/ http://www.plos.org/
- davi 18y ago
  Some progress w/ this: SEC. 218. The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law. [1] This is also prominently featured on the PubMed search page: Does NIH fund your work? Then your manuscript must be made available in PubMed Central [2] [1] http://publicaccess.nih.gov/ http://publicaccess.nih.gov/ [2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

mechanical_fish 18y ago

Why, look, it's another chance to flog my pet peeve! Here's the problem: The citation in the news article looks like this: A recent study published in the Journal of Social Behaviour and Personality... Visit the page of that journal and you can see a link to their "journal online". But the page at the end of the link is hilariously awful: Your university's subscription to this Journal has just become even better value! Notice the complete lack of useful facilities for the general public -- and just about everybody else, for that matter. I can't even find a browseable homepage of the latest issue of this journal. There's a search box that I can type in, but I can't find a recent reference to the only scientist mentioned in the news article. When I do click on a random paper from the journal I can't read it unless I buy it, and I can't buy it or even see the price without registering. They say expressing anger is good for your career. So let me advance my career by noting that the existing for-pay scientific publishing industry is a collection of hopelessly-obsolete parasitic middlemen that actively harms science education by keeping primary sources out of sight of the public, and that we should all lobby to have our government's tax-supported research grants come with a requirement to publish in open-access journals: http://www.plos.org/ http://www.plos.org/

davi 18y ago
Some progress w/ this: SEC. 218. The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law. [1] This is also prominently featured on the PubMed search page: Does NIH fund your work? Then your manuscript must be made available in PubMed Central [2] [1] http://publicaccess.nih.gov/ http://publicaccess.nih.gov/ [2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/