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Is the rise of hedging language in scientific papers correlated in time with the rise in peer review?
In a talk at FORCE2016 (https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2016), Steven Pinker discussed bad writing in science, and mentioned how it had changed over time. One of his statements was that scientists hedge (for example, using hedge words such as "generally" rather than making stronger points...
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