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How Should We Critique Research? A Decision Perspective

by gwern
14th Jul 2019
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This is a linkpost for https://www.gwern.net/Research-criticism

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How Should We Critique Research? A Decision Perspective
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[-]Raemon6y50

I'm too busy to do so today, but I'd appreciate it if someone wrote up a comment that distilled this down into summary.

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[-]gwern6y40

Does the abstract not work for you?

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[-]Raemon6y60

Hmm. Maybe it does. I guess what I normal do when writing a distillation is check whether the abstract was sufficient.

(I have not yet read the post in full, but predicted that if I had, I'd want something that looked more like this as a distillation)

I generally want two things out of a distillation:

  • An 80/20 of the post that does at least some work to clarify any assumptions the post is working in, and give some examples that of the higher level details of the post that get across some pieces of the post's generators, as well as it's content. (This is mostly for people who don't have time to read the whole post)
  • A skimmable document that I can use to refer back to the post in medium resolution, after I've actually read it. Where the point is to keep markers for each major concept the post introduces within a single visual field I can easily use to expand my working memory limitations.
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[-]romeostevensit6y20

I call it decision leverage, for handiness, and looking for it changes casual conversation as well as analysis.

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