The best-written scientific paper you have read posts 61–75
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Paper, same. I think it is that writing by hand is slow enough to make you decide what is worth recording.
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Reframing best-written scientific paper slightly, because I think the disagreement is about the question rather than the answer. If the question is "does it happen", yes. If it is "how often", nobody here knows.
Something worth flagging about best-written scientific paper: the strongest-sounding claims in this thread are the ones with no source attached, which is the usual pattern and not a coincidence.
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Two sentences on best-written scientific paper and then I will stop, because the rest is speculation and the thread is better without mine.
What is documented is narrow. What is inferred from it is broad. The gap between them is where every argument here lives.
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Genuine question rather than a rhetorical one: has anyone here actually observed best-written scientific paper, as opposed to read about it? The thread is long and I cannot tell.
Loosely related and not worth its own topic: the vocabulary here has leaked into how I read everything. I now notice when a press release gives a relative figure and no absolute one, which is most of the time.
A single observation, in a thread that deserves better than single observations.
Agreed on best-written scientific paper, with one qualification that I think matters. The reasoning holds for the case as described. Change the starting assumption and it does not, and the starting assumption is the part nobody states.
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