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The smartest people I know also always seem to be the most depressed and most knowledgeable about the world
TLDR just look at this chart: https://journals.sagepub.com/cms/10.1177/01461672231209400/asset/images/large/10.1177_01461672231209400-fig2.jpeg
The choice of paratheses make this paper so hard to read:
"We also find a negative (positive) correlation between cognitive ability and pessimistic (realistic) beliefs"
That's a common convention in academic papers to demonstrate pairs of correlations, it's the same as writing
"We also find a positive correlation between cognitive ability and realistic beliefs AND a negative correlation between cognitive ability and pessimistic beliefs."
I aslo cn tip lik dis an u no Wat I mnt. Itz lot shrtr 2. y dnt acadmiks do dis? its highr cognitv lod 2 thy lik dat rite?
There's a reason (no good reason) normal (academics) human beings don't (do) use that kind of positive (negative) writing.
My field has different but equally terrible high cognitive load writing conventions, and I call them out as bad every time.
