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“I have read, and accept, the terms and conditions [tick box]”. I have not read the terms and conditions. They know I haven’t. This is not an information exchange.
I was shopping with my Grandma once. I knew bananas were on the list and put them in the trolley. She asked “why didn’t you take these bananas” and indicated a different brand. I thought she was asking for information so provided it, saying “they are smaller, cost more, and are wrapped up in plastic.”. I got body language that indicated I had mis stepped. The next day my mum told me grandma was upset that I had “forced” her to buy bananas that were too big. (Her doctor had told her to eat a target number of pieces of fruit so she was buying the smallest fruit she could find.) She hadn’t really been asking why I had spurned the small ones, she was asking to swap, had I understood that I would have immediately complied.
It is often not considered “fair” for a referee of a scientific paper to challenge what I would call “field mythology”. At some point someone said in a paper conclusion “A is possibly, kind of useful for X”. Then someone else said “good for X” in an introduction, citing the first person. 10 years later it is a commonly stated myth that this specific science topic is “good for X”. People working on the topic don’t really know or care if it is useful for that, they are working on it because they think its good science (the usefulness of science A for problem X is not a load bearing part of the argument for why they, or anyone else, is studying A.) If a referee challenges such a claim in a paper they they may be factually correct, but they are failing to play by “the rules of the game”. Also, it is not really “fair” to berate the paper for parroting the myths of its genre, the referee should be attacking what the paper adds to human knowledge (its marginal).
If you are looking for more examples of narrative syncing:
“I have read, and accept, the terms and conditions [tick box]”. I have not read the terms and conditions. They know I haven’t. This is not an information exchange.
I was shopping with my Grandma once. I knew bananas were on the list and put them in the trolley. She asked “why didn’t you take these bananas” and indicated a different brand. I thought she was asking for information so provided it, saying “they are smaller, cost more, and are wrapped up in plastic.”. I got body language that indicated I had mis stepped. The next day my mum told me grandma was upset that I had “forced” her to buy bananas that were too big. (Her doctor had told her to eat a target number of pieces of fruit so she was buying the smallest fruit she could find.) She hadn’t really been asking why I had spurned the small ones, she was asking to swap, had I understood that I would have immediately complied.
It is often not considered “fair” for a referee of a scientific paper to challenge what I would call “field mythology”. At some point someone said in a paper conclusion “A is possibly, kind of useful for X”. Then someone else said “good for X” in an introduction, citing the first person. 10 years later it is a commonly stated myth that this specific science topic is “good for X”. People working on the topic don’t really know or care if it is useful for that, they are working on it because they think its good science (the usefulness of science A for problem X is not a load bearing part of the argument for why they, or anyone else, is studying A.) If a referee challenges such a claim in a paper they they may be factually correct, but they are failing to play by “the rules of the game”. Also, it is not really “fair” to berate the paper for parroting the myths of its genre, the referee should be attacking what the paper adds to human knowledge (its marginal).