Not just flamboyant though! Also boring and mind-numbing prose is deemed as good.
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Replying to @twitemp1
I have a hunch it's a problem with calibrating yourself versus others. Often things that are important/good are hard, but after PhD it gets less and likely that important things like journal articles are hard to read — this excludes maths, stats, programming!
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But for some reason some of us stay at the calibration: a journal article that is hard to read is hard because I have a gap. That's very unlikely when we're talking about your own field and even related fields if you are anything above 1st/2nd year PhD student.
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What is likely — very likely in fact! — is that some of our peers (including ourselves of course!) might not be very good at explaining complex concepts. Reading and understanding is easy when the writer has done a good job.
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Replying to @o_guest
Yes, agree but why people praise incomprehensible writing then? As a way to compensate for their own insecurity perhaps?
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Replying to @twitemp1
Well, if they make the jump from "I can't understand this" to "Therefore... it must be good" then it's of course the case they will praise something they deem good/outside their reach.
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Replying to @twitemp1
Why does anybody praise anything, I guess? To show others they have good taste? Who knows.
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Replying to @o_guest
Well, that's to harsh! People praise other people for many other reasons some of them sincere Olivia! ;)
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Crossed wires. I wasn't saying praise is bad — merely that I do not know why they do it.
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Replying to @o_guest
Ok. I don't know either but I suspect it is defensive somehow
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