There’s a secret code hiding in many a scientific research paper and it is not about how to live longer and be happier and lose weight, etc. No, it’s the code that tells you precisely what was going through the researcher’s head as he or she was writing the paper.
While working as a neuropsychology assistant when I first got out of grad school, I saw this posted on the board and laughed so hard I thought I would fall over. I copied it and don’t know where it went, but today I stumbled on it out of the blue and wanted to post it here.
For those who have ever done their own experimental design and conducted research as I have, you will totally know why this is so funny.
While I suspect that whoever is behind these good-natured jabs has written a lot of scientific papers themselves, I’d love to see them take on other academic disciplines and their best crutch phrases.
