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Re:The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure? by xzttt on Sunday June 03, 2018 @08:16AM (#17219199)
I don't understand this researcher worship. How many papers from 1800-1900 are still valuable? How many from 1900-2000.

Fact is that academia is grossly overstaffed and under publication pressure. Most papers aren't worth much, especially in the social sciences.

Even in CS there are few seminal papers, and I mean the level of Tukey, Dana Scott, Pollard...

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Re:The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure? by MikkoFinell on Sunday June 03, 2018 @12:01PM (#17220147)
LOL, what are you talking about? I asked why OP had such a dismissive attitude towards the original paper, and that's "researcher worship"? Gotta be one of the most toxic responses I've gotten so far on HN.
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