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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E.G. Women are under-cited because they are under-read because they are under-cited because they have less signalling value (fewer historical opportunities) and they're less bundled with cannon because of the ensuing preferential attachment problems.
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