Simulation: "That paper was so hard to read! I couldn't really parse the sentences... I mean, I don't think I got even half of it after reading it five times — what a great paper."
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I wasn’t suggesting you didn’t of course; no doubt it happens. I just hope it’s not a prevalent attitude and our colleagues are (at times) capable of appreciating good work without bells and whistles.
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In my experiences, almost all biases prevalent in society more generally are present in science too (sometimes in attenuated form, but nonetheless there).
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Of course. But my point is that (1) I am not certain “complicated/verbose is good” is a common bias/heuristic at the general population level, and (2) verboseness in scientific writing is an outcome of more complex processes than a simple heuristic.
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I didn't say it was common, merely that I have seen it manifest enough times to have formed this memory.
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I think within the individuals I have seen it, they themselves do it often. But on a population level, I cannot really know how prevalent. Enough that I have noticed it within certain groups.
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But to be clear, when I say they find a paper too difficult to follow, I am myself (because I can also read LOL) saying the paper itself is badly written.
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I think people study this exact question though! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103110001745 …
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