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csours on Dec 13, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Scientific Paper is Obsolete (2018)

Another way to say this is "The UX of Scientific Papers is Poor"

It's not hard to imaging a better UX - for the field what are the top 5 questions you want to answer before you start reading?

Eg: Sample size, Funding, etc. Put those at the top of the paper with symbols.

d110af5ccf on Dec 13, 2021 [–]

Some medical journals have done something very similar to this for quite some time. They also define any acronyms used and have a brief summary of the key results.

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