What's your least favorite stylistic choice in research? For me it's putting the Methods section at the end of the paper. Methods is the most important part, it's what the authors actually did, putting it at the end is a terrible idea
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Replying to @GidMK
Hard disagree. Most of the papers I read, I don't have expertise in the methods to the point where it would change my understanding of the paper. If I'm interested, I can look up an online method supplement.
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Replying to @Duke_of_neural
I don't think it's worth reading a paper if you cannot understand the methodology tbh. The results are often pretty meaningless unless you know what the authors actually did
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Replying to @GidMK
"We performed FRET analysis." I know what fret does, and can interpret fret results. But I've never done fret myself. I'd be fooling myself if I believed I could spot an error with their methodology from reading a paragraph of what they did.
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Replying to @Duke_of_neural @GidMK
There's a wide gulf between not understanding the basic concept of a method and there being value in digging into their methodology.
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Replying to @Duke_of_neural @GidMK
Er, between understanding the basic concept and results and being an expert in the method rather.
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Oh yes, I misunderstood what you were saying. I do think that it's important to at least be able to identify whether the methodology used was appropriate in this context, even if you can't spot mistakes at that scale
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