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It's funny because it's true.http://io9.com/5880128/what-scientists-say-in-research-papers-vs-what-they-actually-meanNo one is immune from using these turns of phrase. The paper's gotta get written and it should sound confident. Most of the time the language of a paper is ignored by scientists in the same field. The problem is when non-scientists or scientists from a distant field read the paper, they will usually take the words at their word... so to speak.All this is to say: you gotta read the actual experiment to know what's going on, NOT take the scientists' language in the paper for granted. Many times the writing was just to "get it done" -- not to provide useful perspective.
Haha thats true. What drives me insane though is when the news get a hold of these studies and make it even worse due to their scientific illiteracy.
The news defers to the author's conclusions. It seems like they simply read conclusions and possibly a whole abstract. They almost never go after how a study was conducted or the data was handled.
The news defers to the author's conclusions. It seems like they simply read conclusions and possibly a whole abstract. They almost never go after how a study was conducted or the data was handled.
Yeah, this problem is rampant. Even on websites professing to be for scientists and medical professionals, e.g. MedPageToday.com (which I follow).
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