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John_Maxwell_IV comments on PSA: Please list your references, don't just link them - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: Benja 04 January 2013 01:57AM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 05 January 2013 10:41:41AM *  1 point [-]

You don't think an article's abstract is significant Bayesian evidence? (How about the abstract of a meta-analysis?) Which is the weaker link here: from blog post to abstract or from abstract to actual paper?

Too many people dabbling in scientism these days with the internet making it easy to link to a few articles whose abstracts support your point.

Can't have those unwashed masses linking to scientific papers now can we? :)

Comment author: RomeoStevens 05 January 2013 12:05:06PM 3 points [-]

abstracts of meta analyses are significantly better. The problem with normal papers is that the abstract doesn't always specify the methodology, effect size, and clinical relevance.