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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by socalnate1 on Saturday September 19, 2020 @12:15AM (#24524993)
That’s fair. But you are just proving my point. This research was dismissed out of hand, it wasn’t actually engaged with to see if it’s a correct assessment or not. That seems to happen whenever any sort of soft science research is posted here. There is a contingent of folks that seems to believe soft science is an oxymoron and therefore shouldn’t even be tried.
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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by pas on Saturday September 19, 2020 @05:36AM (#24526263)
It's not necessarily bad habit to kind of purge HN of these random "paper announcements". Wait until there's a meta-analysis and let's submit that and talk about that.

Regarding the folks who are militantly ignorant about the science of soft science, alas I have to agree, they are a bit of a problem.

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