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ChristianKl comments on Open thread for December 9 - 16, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 13 December 2013 03:24:26PM 0 points [-]

If you know English and Mandarin, you might make an academic career out of writing meta analysis of topics discussed in Mandarin research papers.

Comment author: Barry_Cotter 14 December 2013 09:02:11AM 2 points [-]

I am not professionally involved in these fields but I have read that among those who are there is a very jaundiced opinion of Chinese and Indian scientific research. If none of the following hold completely ignoring their publications is apparently a good heuristic; at least one foreign co-author or one who did their doctorate in the first world or an institution or author with a significant reputation. Living in China and having some minimal experience with the Chinese attitude to plagiarism/copying/research makes this seem plausible. I doubt anyone's missing anything by ignoring scientific articles published in Mandarin. I make no such claims for social sciences.