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Re:Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Associa... by red_admiral on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:31AM (#39029939)
It's a common joke in Mathematics that the way to get lots of citations is to publish a paper with a subtle error - then every "someone was wrong on ~the internet~ _a paper_" type will cite you with suggested corrections.
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Re:Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Associa... by myself248 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:01PM (#39030347)
Cunningham's Law.
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Re:Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Associa... by autonomousErwin on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:15PM (#39030528)
There was an opportunity of comical irony here...
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Re:Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Associa... by FrustratedMonky on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:10PM (#39030471)
Yeah. Everyone claiming peer-review and publishing is broke, are completely discounting this effect. That people like finding things wrong in other papers.
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Re:Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Associa... by CoastalCoder on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:18PM (#39030562)
I'm actually glad that people like doing that, as I imagine it reduces the risk of false beliefs becoming accepted as true.

But maybe there are other factors that make it a net negative? (I haven't really followed academia since concluding my studies.)

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Re:Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Associa... by voakbasda on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:59AM (#39030322)
Not just math. The technique is called "nerd sniping":

https://xkcd.com/356/

Beware. It's a common trick on forums not entirely unlike this one.

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