• smh@slrpnk.net
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    16 hours ago

    I don’t think they read it or else they’d see it’s a literature review. Those don’t tend to have “controls”, they instead summarize multiple studies on the sane topic to see if anything interesting come up.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      9 hours ago

      Literature reviews don’t generally work by grabbing two seperate topics, and placing them in close proximity to eachother so you can them claim “This MIGHT influence that”. This paper has a qualifier in every single sentence of the abstract that talks about conclusions.

      Show that it DOES, leave the speculation for the discussion portion.