this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
598 points (98.2% liked)
Science Memes
11217 readers
2412 users here now
Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!
A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
- Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
- Keep it rooted (on topic).
- No spam.
- Infographics welcome, get schooled.
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Research Committee
Other Mander Communities
Science and Research
Biology and Life Sciences
- !abiogenesis@mander.xyz
- !animal-behavior@mander.xyz
- !anthropology@mander.xyz
- !arachnology@mander.xyz
- !balconygardening@slrpnk.net
- !biodiversity@mander.xyz
- !biology@mander.xyz
- !biophysics@mander.xyz
- !botany@mander.xyz
- !ecology@mander.xyz
- !entomology@mander.xyz
- !fermentation@mander.xyz
- !herpetology@mander.xyz
- !houseplants@mander.xyz
- !medicine@mander.xyz
- !microscopy@mander.xyz
- !mycology@mander.xyz
- !nudibranchs@mander.xyz
- !nutrition@mander.xyz
- !palaeoecology@mander.xyz
- !palaeontology@mander.xyz
- !photosynthesis@mander.xyz
- !plantid@mander.xyz
- !plants@mander.xyz
- !reptiles and amphibians@mander.xyz
Physical Sciences
- !astronomy@mander.xyz
- !chemistry@mander.xyz
- !earthscience@mander.xyz
- !geography@mander.xyz
- !geospatial@mander.xyz
- !nuclear@mander.xyz
- !physics@mander.xyz
- !quantum-computing@mander.xyz
- !spectroscopy@mander.xyz
Humanities and Social Sciences
Practical and Applied Sciences
- !exercise-and sports-science@mander.xyz
- !gardening@mander.xyz
- !self sufficiency@mander.xyz
- !soilscience@slrpnk.net
- !terrariums@mander.xyz
- !timelapse@mander.xyz
Memes
Miscellaneous
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Honestly if the abstract can't deliver a succinct and accurate summary of the findings and their limitations, then it's probably a bad paper that you wouldn't want to cite.
I think, the bigger problem is when the abstract tells that everything is all nice and simple, but in reality it's not
... Is it ever?
If you have to end every sentence with outliers aside... Then maybe people should understand that they are talking about the norm. Not your fringe anecdotal cases lol.
I've been far away from academia for a long time, but last time I read papers on voice processing it went something like this:
Abstract: we've achieved [very good results] using this one simple trick…
Body: actually, we will maybe not tell what was the corpus we used to measure how good we are. We're also going to omit several important steps where they can be omitted nonchalantly, so that reproducing what seems to be a thorough description will be a pain
So, I don't know if it ever is all nice and simple, but man could it be better if things were always done in good faith and professionally
To be fair, a lot of good researchers have trouble creating succinct abstracts.