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Re:Stop Using the Flesch-Kincaid Test by victoro0 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @04:03AM (#21189866)
It's time people realize that a great deal of scientific papers are just written as a requirement to finish a masters/doctors degree, or are just about meeting the yearly publication quotas of the department. I know very proficient writers that probably haven't written a single article worth reading.
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Re:Stop Using the Flesch-Kincaid Test by PeterStuer on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:00AM (#21190150)
While there are many things extremely wrong with the quantitative output requirements of modern science, arguing that "a great deal of scientific papers are just written as a requirement to finish a masters/doctors degree" is somehow a bad thing is not sincere.

For many their PhD thesis is probably both the most laborious and the most scrutinized piece of work they will have to produce.

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