gwern comments on Too good to be true - LessWrong

24 Post author: PhilGoetz 11 July 2014 08:16PM

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Comment author: gwern 25 July 2014 07:11:13PM 2 points [-]

Why do you think it changed, and in the early 1990s specifically? (The original study I posted only examined '90s papers and so couldn't show any time-series like that, so it can't be why you think that.)

Comment author: V_V 25 July 2014 08:59:00PM 3 points [-]

I suppose that before the 1990s respectable Soviet scientists published primarily in Russian.