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lallysingh on July 3, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nancy Pearl’s Rule of 50 for dropping a bad book

Research papers deserve no mercy. Mine what you want out of them. Only reviewers have to read them whole.

philwelch on July 3, 2018 [–]

You might also want to at least skim the whole thing if you want to use a research paper to win an argument, if you suspect that your interlocutor will try and find something to nitpick.

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