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Compressing a piece of research into a journal paper's word count is itself a distortion of what was found.

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metascience Research about research: whether published findings hold up, and what makes a field more or less reliable.

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  1. Stuart Ritchie Psychologist, formerly a lecturer at King's College London
    The mere act of squeezing a complex process into a few thousand words—limited by a journal-imposed word count—is itself a distortion of reality.

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