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[–] dingus@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wait...you mean I was supposed to actually read the articles I cited????

If YouTube counts 10% as a view, then I can read the discussion by itself and consider myself edumacated.

[–] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why the good lord gave us abstracts

[–] Bristle1744@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

And explicitly told us to copy/paste stuff until everybody has a copy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_the_multitude

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

It’s easy to read articles when you skip the middle parts with all the big words.

[–] tacotroubles@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Abstracts are good enough for me

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Abstract+conclusions is the sweet spot.

This makes me think that given some particular article, the only people that would ever read it in its entirety are its authors and (maybe) a couple reviewers.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My preferred reading order: Abstract > conclusion > results > discussion / analysis > methods > background > introduction

This is the way. This is the way of light and goodness.

[–] THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 12 points 1 year ago

Huh then i am the baddest boy alive .

[–] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

Anyone who fully reads every article they cite is simply bad at time management.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My sister cites articles she hasn't even read.

She once tried to tell me that the moon only had 16 shades of color (can't remember the exact number). I told her that couldn't be true because there's an infinite amount of points between each shade since color is a spectrum, so she showed me an article with the headline "the 16 shades of the moon"... We argued for a few minutes and then I read the first paragraph, and it said something like "this guy took 16 photos of the moon's different hues". The article she was basing her claim off of didn't even claim what she thought it did lol.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds like she was referring to 16 bit

[–] alp@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Real mrn only read titles.

[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You monster!