![]() RW, hyperbole should be avoided? But the IPCC guidance enshrines it.ģ) Be aware of a tendency for a group to converge on an expressed view and become overconfident in it. It’s almost like a hockey stick of robustness: This tool used to analyse words, when selected for academic use, shows that indeed, “robust” is a favorite word of science:Īnd, this Ngram suggests that at least through 2008, the word “robust” has become vastly more popular in books. Dr Christiaan Vinkers – a psychiatrist at the Rudolf Magnus brain centre – was the main author of another ”very robust” report. We’ve all heard of those ”ground-breaking” studies or ”innovative” research projects. Researchers at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands looked at four decades worth of medical and scientific publications, and found a significant upwards trend of positive words. “In that case, words used to describe scientific results are no longer driven by the content but by marketability.”Ī BBC story here says the use of the word “robust” has gone up 15000% They write:ĭespite working with facts, figures and empirical evidence, the world of science appears to have a growing addiction to hyperbole. “If everything is ‘robust’ and ‘novel’”, says Vinkers, then there is no distinction between the qualities of findings. The word ‘novel’ now appears in more than 7% of PubMed paper titles and abstracts, and the researchers jokingly extrapolate that, on the basis of its past rise, it is set to appear in every paper by the year 2123.īut Vinkers and his colleagues think that the trend highlights a problem. Researchers may be tempted to make their findings stand out from thousands of others - a tendency that might also explain the more modest rise in usage of negative words. ![]() The findings “fit our own observations that in order to get published, you need to emphasize what is special and unique about your study,” he says. The most obvious interpretation of the results is that they reflect an increase in hype and exaggeration, rather than a real improvement in the incidence or quality of discoveries, says Vinkers. Use of the 25 negative words rose from 1.3% to 2.4% over the same period, according to the study, published in the British Medical Journal on 14 December 1. The number of papers containing any of the positive words in their title or abstract rose from an average of 2% in 1974–80 to 17.5% in 2014. Only time will tell.Psychiatrist Christiaan Vinkers and his colleagues searched papers on PubMed for 25 ‘positive’ words and 25 ‘negative’ words (which the authors selected by manually analysing papers and consulting thesaurus listings). ![]() This may be due in part to the excesses of Slaanesh followers unable to get their acts together to actually form a team, or because Khorne and Nurgle hate Slaanesh with a fiery passion and have created machinations for no team to be created in Slaanesh's name. Those who worship Slaanesh are those who either wish to achieve the most popularity amongst their fellow men or the most ecstatic pleasure, pleasure beyond imaginable.Ĭurrently, there are no Blood Bowl teams who have fully worshipped or embraced Slaanesh, such as other teams who have for Khorne and Nurgle. His followers seek only to indulge in whatever fleeting whims and desires they feel, and they tend to become graceful, beautiful warriors who harbor selfish, cruel souls. He is typically considered androgynous, and while he is usually referred to as being male, the Elven races consider him to be female. Slaanesh, known as the Prince of Excess, is the Chaos God of lust, pleasure, desire, and excess. ![]()
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