But they do mention googling sources and doing literature review, and “Ed Dante” says he will write about anything that does not require him to do any math (or animal husbandry.) For original research in hard sciences, there’s probably not going to be much of anything that doesn’t at least require some statistics, but for undergraduate literature review papers, it probably wouldn’t be hard to get away with.
All true, but the shadow authors:
don’t mention doing work for the hard sciences or reading peer-reviewed articles in such fields
are able to learn all they need from a day or so of self-study, showing low inferential distance in the fields and thus low knowledge content
mention high involvement in graduate level work, where the implications of their success are much more significant.
But they do mention googling sources and doing literature review, and “Ed Dante” says he will write about anything that does not require him to do any math (or animal husbandry.) For original research in hard sciences, there’s probably not going to be much of anything that doesn’t at least require some statistics, but for undergraduate literature review papers, it probably wouldn’t be hard to get away with.