To be fair, a lot of good researchers have trouble creating succinct abstracts.
Comment on Is there another way to do it...?
Ibaudia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Honestly if the abstract can’t deliver a succinct and accurate summary of the findings and their limitations, then it’s probably a bad paper that you wouldn’t want to cite.
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 5 months ago
sukhmel@programming.dev 5 months ago
I think, the bigger problem is when the abstract tells that everything is all nice and simple, but in reality it’s not
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
… Is it ever?
If you have to end every sentence with outliers aside… Then maybe people should understand that they are talking about the norm. Not your fringe anecdotal cases lol.
sukhmel@programming.dev 5 months ago
I’ve been far away from academia for a long time, but last time I read papers on voice processing it went something like this:
Abstract: we’ve achieved [very good results] using this one simple trick…
Body: actually, we will maybe not tell what was the corpus we used to measure how good we are. We’re also going to omit several important steps where they can be omitted nonchalantly, so that reproducing what seems to be a thorough description will be a pain
So, I don’t know if it ever is all nice and simple, but man could it be better if things were always done in good faith and professionally