JoshuaZ comments on Follow-up on ESP study: "We don't publish replications" - Less Wrong

71 Post author: CarlShulman 12 July 2011 08:48PM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 12 July 2011 09:41:04PM 0 points [-]

I think your comment is getting voted down because it doesn't actually answer the issue in question. It does allow there to be a set of citable papers, but it doesn't deal with the actual question which is how any given paper would ever get its first citation.

Comment author: Clippy 12 July 2011 10:00:02PM *  2 points [-]

Yes, it does, because paper B, from after the cutoff, cites a cite-less paper A, from before the cutoff. Then a paper C can cite B (or A), as B cites a previous paper, and A is from a time for which the standard today is not applied. (Perhaps I wasn't clear that the cutoff also applies to citable papers -- papers from before the cutoff don't themselves need citations in them to be citable.)

Edit: Also, papers from before the cutoff cited other prior papers.

Comment author: Benquo 14 July 2011 02:39:56AM 1 point [-]

It's not citing but being cited, I think. So if A and B are both before the cutoff, and A cites B, then C from after the cutoff can cite B (but not necessarily A).