Kevin comments on Nature editorial: Do scientists really need a PhD? - Less Wrong

-4 Post author: Kevin 11 March 2010 09:39AM

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Comment author: Kevin 12 March 2010 05:48:52AM 0 points [-]

I also thought so, but nothing but the descriptive link had already hit a critical mass of downvotes, so it seemed worth it to experiment further to see if I could quickly get a permutation that I got it back up into positive karma.

I suspected that people didn't like the descriptive link (which was the first two sentences of the article), because the writing style of a mainstream media article is rather jolting coming from the style of prose generally practiced on Less Wrong.

Comment author: orthonormal 12 March 2010 07:42:35AM 1 point [-]

I downvoted because I favor the norm that links sans independent content from the linker belong in the Open Thread. If it's important enough, it'll get linked from a relevant future post.