I aslo cn tip lik dis an u no Wat I mnt. Itz lot shrtr 2. y dnt acadmiks do dis? its highr cognitv lod 2 thy lik dat rite?
There’s a reason (no good reason) normal (academics) human beings don’t (do) use that kind of positive (negative) writing.
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lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 10 months agoThat’s a common convention in academic papers to demonstrate pairs of correlations, it’s the same as writing
“We also find a positive correlation between cognitive ability and realistic beliefs AND a negative correlation between cognitive ability and pessimistic beliefs.”
jeffhykin@lemm.ee 10 months ago
sj_zero 10 months ago
I end up reading a lot of academic journals, and the way that they're written I swear are intentionally obtuse. Sometimes people say "they only seem that way because they are communicating complex ideas", but when I read papers in my own field I know that that's not really the case. I once made it three quarters of the way through an article before I realized that all they were doing was slapping a PID on the problem they were defining. You could have written the same article and made it understandable to anyone with even a passing knowledge of the subject but instead they had to make it so obtuse that practitioners in the field would really struggle.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Thank you for explaining that. I hate it.
leds@feddit.dk 10 months ago
Sounds like you improved your cognitive ability
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Cognitive ability and memory are two very different things.