Possible explanation: papers are becoming less how you communicate ideas, and more how you register work to get credit for it.https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/906067667055919105 …
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I don't see how that's an incentive. It takes effort to make something non-readable. You'd arguably only do that for some payoff.
That payoff could be as simple as "my peers use more specific language and I should too"
That said, the trend is troublesome as it limits accessibility of scientific research. Think it's time for a better research paper format
My girlfriend is doing her PhD at the moment. When she tries to use simple language in her papers it gets sent back to be made more complex
Is the feedback actually "make this more complex"?
Re-writing the same argument with bigger words and longer sentences is usually enough to accomodate that feedback.
Readable by who? The goal is to share with peers in a subfield. There are other channels sharing with the public. #actuallivingscientist
I've heard the argument that patents actually ought to be readable to be valuable; judgements are by non-experts if they go to court
Makes me wonder how we can incentivize scientific papers to be more replicable and simpler to understand.pic.twitter.com/Z01txkcq4s
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