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Academian comments on What Would You Like To Read? A Quick Poll - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: alyssavance 21 June 2012 12:38AM

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Comment author: alyssavance 21 June 2012 12:39:11AM 15 points [-]

Vote up this comment if you would be most likely to read an academic paper, downloadable over the Internet as a PDF.

Comment author: Academian 21 June 2012 01:08:44AM *  4 points [-]

For me this depends heavily on what you mean by "read"... how it depends:

I am about 3x more like to browse an academic paper all the way through than a blog post (upon seeing that the title interests me).

I am about 100x more likely to read every single word of a blog post than an academic paper (upon seeing that the title interest me).