I am surprised that you are surprised that this got published. It reinforces and claims to provide proof towards the worldviews currently ascendant in academia, strengthening politically convenient claims and weakening inconvenient ones. Overstatement of the result also seems par for the course. That doesn’t make it useful, or anything, but it all seems very unsurprising.
Yeah, I was just thinking about me saying that while I was standing in the shower. I actually planned to remove the “I am surprised that this got published” line, because I wasn’t actually surprised. I think implicitly I probably just wanted to reduce the status of the associated paper, and question its legitimacy, and it seems that the cached phrase I currently have for that is “I am surprised this got published”, which really doesn’t seem like the ideal phrase for that, but does seem pretty commonly used for precisely that purpose.
I am surprised that you are surprised that this got published. It reinforces and claims to provide proof towards the worldviews currently ascendant in academia, strengthening politically convenient claims and weakening inconvenient ones. Overstatement of the result also seems par for the course. That doesn’t make it useful, or anything, but it all seems very unsurprising.
Yeah, I was just thinking about me saying that while I was standing in the shower. I actually planned to remove the “I am surprised that this got published” line, because I wasn’t actually surprised. I think implicitly I probably just wanted to reduce the status of the associated paper, and question its legitimacy, and it seems that the cached phrase I currently have for that is “I am surprised this got published”, which really doesn’t seem like the ideal phrase for that, but does seem pretty commonly used for precisely that purpose.