JoshN1986 OP t1_iws08t6 wrote on November 17, 2022 at 10:24 PM

Reply to comment by LingonberryDry3814 in Ask research questions in plain language and get answers directly from the full text of research articles by JoshN1986

Do you think we worked to index millions of full-text articles over years to bypass actual thinking, reading, and research? Come on! You're being disingenuous here and trying to tear down work just for the sake of it. We want to enhance reading, discovery, and understanding, so we have made it easier to search or ask questions of research. We welcome constructive feedback, but your example is clearly not an "atrocity," as you describe it. I get it though it's reddit and everyone wants to comment some "gotcha!"

LingonberryDry3814 t1_iws14d6 wrote on November 17, 2022 at 10:30 PM

I’m sure you’ve put a lot of work into this, and it’s hard to hear negative feedback. I hope that with some time and distance, you’ll see how this contributes to misinformation and the general destruction of nuanced knowledge. I’m a researcher. I can see how this would mangle my messages. I’m not impressed.

ETA: I think what a lot of people are reacting to is the claim that you’re getting “an answer”. I’ve been in academia for over a decade. (A) it doesn’t work like that, and (b) I know my students. People love to think they have an answer, when all they have is decontextualized phrase-salad.