Marc. (all); It’s under 3% It’s probably closer to 2%. In some fields ( psych, s

Marc. (all);
It’s under 3% It’s probably closer to 2%. In some fields ( psych, soc, pol) it’s right of the decimal if not a negative number (sic). In other fields (philosophy) it’s multiple digits to the right of the decimal point. I don’t know how many papers I read a month, but its many tens. And all I see that has any value with any regularity is applied sicence (neurology, biology, chemistry, materials). Though some fields (genetics, archaeology, one or two AI papers a year) are useful. Franky, randomly shuffling thru patent apps is at least entertaining.

You know how we used to track news narratives over time? It’d be interesting to do the same with theories, and then group papers under those theories and watch them over time. Without context we lose the opportunity for the rather obvious observation that it’s mostly nonsense.
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