Counterintuitive as it sounds, I'm always encouraged when I publish a new essay and get showered with insults. Showered = lots of people saw it, and insults = there were no big mistakes in it for them to refute.
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The really scary thing to receive after publishing a new essay is the polite email whose subject line includes e.g. "statistical error."
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Looks like there is a positive correlation between the strength of evidence and politeness in pointing it out..?
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