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Some great advice<\/a>\u00a0by Cosma Shalizi. These are just the footnotes:<\/p>\n

* Some branches of the humanities and the social sciences have the horrible custom of reading an academic paper out loud, apparently on the theory that this way none of the details get glossed over. The only useful advice which can be given about this is “Don’t!”…\u00a0<\/p>\n

** …\u00a0big tables of numbers (e.g., regression coefficients) are pointless; and here “big” means “larger than 2×2”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The entire post is highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some great advice\u00a0by Cosma Shalizi. These are just the footnotes: * Some branches of the humanities and the social sciences have the horrible custom of reading an academic paper out loud, apparently on the theory that this way none of the details get glossed over. The only useful advice which can be given about this is “Don’t!”…\u00a0 ** …\u00a0big tables of numbers (e.g., regression coefficients) are pointless; and here “big” means “larger than 2×2”. The entire post is highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[43,44],"tags":[58,147],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-6P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":282,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=282","url_meta":{"origin":423,"position":0},"title":"Writing with the rear-view mirror","date":"February 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Social science research is supposed to work like this: 1) You want to explain a certain case or a class of phenomena; 2) You develop a theory and derive a set of hypotheses; 3) You test the hypotheses with data; 4) You conclude about the plausibility of\u00a0the theory; 5) You\u00a0write\u00a0a\u00a0paper\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Academic publishing"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":123,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=123","url_meta":{"origin":423,"position":1},"title":"Academic fraud reaching new heights","date":"November 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Academic \u00a0fraud is reaching new heights lows. 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