I just read a paper from the early 90s that was written really nicely and it made me think—did scientists really write better papers back then or is our sample of older papers biased because we tend to read classics which partly became classics *because* they were written well?
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Replying to @dsquintana
Option C: survivorship bias. Only the good papers got digitised, to read the bad ones you have to dig out the actual physical journal!
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I know right. Crazy idea!
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