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Jun 27, 2021

The accessibility criticism I've heard was against making research deliberately inaccessible, or not trying hard enough to make it accessible when it's the kind of research that should be accessible. That is, it's about presentation not content.

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Jules Jacobs

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Jun 28, 2021

Deliberately inaccessible is perhaps not the right phrase. Making the research sound more fancy, with the side effect of making it less accessible. The opposite of down-to-earth. To be clear, I'm not talking about your research.

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Yeah, this tends to be what I mean by the term. As a consumer of research, I do appreciate when people try to make research only as fancy as it needs to be, but I realise that's not always possible when ideas are first being conceived, and could sometimes be counter-productive.

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I also realise that 'fanciness' also depends on the target audience, and the people coming up with the new ideas might not always be the same people who work distill them into something more readily understood for wider audiences. 😅