Re:Show HN: Feed of current articles for science lovers shor...
by Iv on Sunday March 10, 2019 @09:08PM
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Thank you for this, that's really great! You are totally right: between the full article and the (often over-hyped) title, there is a sweet spot for a short, high signal-to-noise summary. Even the abstract is often too verbose or omit some important shortcomings of the article.
In some subreddits, users receive a lot of karma to do things similar to what you are doing. Usually making:
- a summary of the finding (the abstract in one sentence)
- a summary of the methodology (which often tells if a study is solid or not)
- context to understand if this is a breakthrough, an interesting but unpractical effect, a potentially misleading discovery
These are especially precious in environmental or medical research where one study may seem to say totally different things based on the overall context.
In some subreddits, users receive a lot of karma to do things similar to what you are doing. Usually making:
- a summary of the finding (the abstract in one sentence) - a summary of the methodology (which often tells if a study is solid or not) - context to understand if this is a breakthrough, an interesting but unpractical effect, a potentially misleading discovery
These are especially precious in environmental or medical research where one study may seem to say totally different things based on the overall context.