Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-07-31/Recent research

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 * Please see the book Punished by Rewards (ISBN 0618001816; ISBN 978-0618001811) by Alfie Kohn.
 * —Wavelength (talk) 15:47, 2 August 2013 (UTC)


 * >>The authors' analysis of the data is problematic; at one point they contradict themselves, noting that "[One of the observed phenomena] could indicate, however, that the community is closing up after all" although later their conclusion states "Our conclusion is that it cannot be claimed with certainty that the Polish Wikipedia community is closing up.".<< How is this a contradiction? It looks simply like the authors first make a hypothesis and then later come to the conclusion that it was false. -- MF-W 23:36, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
 * There are no hypotheses stated in the paper, and the contradictory claims are not addressed in any way.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 17:02, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
 * How can a sentence saying "abc could indicate that xyz" not be a hypothesis? -- MF-W 00:58, 4 August 2013 (UTC)