Ok, but I am not a professional in the vast majority of fields I want to find studies in. I would go so far as to say I’m a dilettante in many of them.
even as a dilettante you can often dismiss the conclusions of a paper based on really obvious problems in the methodology (especially in nutrition/exercise/longevity research).
if you are unsure about the quality of the study, then you should also look at the method section to identify it’s limitations.3
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3. If you want to get a better and more accurate view on the topic in question you should read the full paper. The heuristic of mainly focusing on abstracts is cost-effective but it invariably results in a loss of information.
Feh. Dilettantes read the abstracts. Professionals read the Methods section.
Ok, but I am not a professional in the vast majority of fields I want to find studies in. I would go so far as to say I’m a dilettante in many of them.
even as a dilettante you can often dismiss the conclusions of a paper based on really obvious problems in the methodology (especially in nutrition/exercise/longevity research).
You often don’t have access to the full paper.
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Speed-accuracy trade-off.