Today's delightful find in @gwern's treasure chambers: the importance of Leprechaun hunting if you want to be a good scholar. I admit to having being taken in by a few of these.https://www.gwern.net/Scanners#leprechaun-hunting-and-historical-context …
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The lesson is not "Aha! Now I will not bring up drapetomania again!" but rather to recognize that many would-be leprechauns are hiding in one's own writing - often in plain sight. How many of us read the context about favourite quotes or claims in our own fields?
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The exercise of discovering that something you written may be a leprechaun (one of mine: carrots are orange because of selection by Dutch nationalist gardeners) and running after it into the warren that is academic citations is healthy, frustrating and makes you a sceptic.
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The real pot of gold is of course understanding where the confusion lies plus the smugness you get from knowing this (and that others - sometimes famous others - don't). But from behind the hill there is merry laughter about the other things you did not catch...
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Another anti-leprechaun strategy: whenever you uncover one, even if you do not use it directly in your paper, make sure there is some mention that it is a leprechaun: "[1]: Drapetomania is another common example in this category, but turns out to be largely fictional..."
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The reason is to spread awareness that this is an academic urban legend (making others less likely to do the mistake). If we just leave out correcting common misconceptions they will remain tenaciously common. With correction, they will show up too, but at a lower rate.
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The main limiting factor of this kind of academic legends is likely the exponential fall-off of citation over time and generational shifts: the final nail for disproven claims is not the disproof but when accidental references cease.
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As Wittgenstein says, "If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies'; he can omit to teach them the word 'fairy'." The problem then is when someone industrious but not *too* industrious digs it back up as a big discovery...
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