Ideal: Citations represent an intellectual chain-of-custody. Reality: It's mostly a combination of signalling that you've cited cannon and providing evidence in favor of your arguments without really doing so.
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There *are* benefits to signalling and anchoring in the literature. Like, I'm oversimplifying and building a straw man, too. But, when you think about the reality, the downsides are more legible.
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I recently tracked and oft quoted statistic in review papers back through endless citations and found the first reference to it was a mis-quote from the original research article
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The one I'd really like to track down, Shannon saying "Information is the resolution of uncertainty." WHERE DID HE SAY THAT, NO ONE HAS A SOURCE!?
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