petersuber on Nostr: A new study tracks the rise of spelling errors as markers of scholarly carelessness. ...
A new study tracks the rise of spelling errors as markers of scholarly carelessness.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/10/28/casual-inference-and-pubic-health-what-a-rise-in-common-spelling-errors-says-about-the-state-of-research-culture/
"We examined spelling errors as a simple indicator of corner cutting. Spelling errors are less serious than other bad writing practices…but they are easy to check across millions of papers…The total error rate has increased from 0.1 per ten thousand abstracts in 1970, to 8.7 per ten thousand in 2023."
OK. But the study blames #authors, not both authors and #editors / #journals.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/10/28/casual-inference-and-pubic-health-what-a-rise-in-common-spelling-errors-says-about-the-state-of-research-culture/
"We examined spelling errors as a simple indicator of corner cutting. Spelling errors are less serious than other bad writing practices…but they are easy to check across millions of papers…The total error rate has increased from 0.1 per ten thousand abstracts in 1970, to 8.7 per ten thousand in 2023."
OK. But the study blames #authors, not both authors and #editors / #journals.