• lckdscl [they/them]@whiskers.bim.boats
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    1 year ago

    That’s a common convention in academic papers to demonstrate pairs of correlations, it’s the same as writing

    “We also find a positive correlation between cognitive ability and realistic beliefs AND a negative correlation between cognitive ability and pessimistic beliefs.”

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      1 year ago

      I aslo cn tip lik dis an u no Wat I mnt. Itz lot shrtr 2. y dnt acadmiks do dis? its highr cognitv lod 2 thy lik dat rite?

      There’s a reason (no good reason) normal (academics) human beings don’t (do) use that kind of positive (negative) writing.

      My field has different but equally terrible high cognitive load writing conventions, and I call them out as bad every time.