On 11/14/2016 10:11 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 11/14/2016 10:18 AM, Yuri Kreaton wrote:
On 11/14/2016 8:51 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Physicists avoid highly mathematical work despite being trained in
advanced mathematics, a new study suggests. The study, published in
the New Journal of Physics, shows that physicists pay less attention
to theories that are crammed with mathematical details.



that author reaches an obvioulsy wrong conclusion based upon very weak
data. NO confidence bounds given.

the author shows his dislike of math, and a bias to obtain his finding.

It's more of a social sciences paper, rather than a hard science paper.
Social sciences are always a bit fuzzy in their conclusions.

Yousuf Khan


key to his argument is;

"The researchers found using statistical analysis of the number of
citations to 2,000 articles in a leading physics journal, that articles
are less likely to be referenced by other physicists if they have lots
of mathematical equations on each page."

but that is BS, as obviously the most referenced papers are the ones
with a new key piece of knowledge discovered, or derrived in them.
Anyone that has worked or researched in the professional journals knows
this.

And those papers are not dependent upon the amount of math in them, some
have a little, some have a lot.

So I think this author laid an egg with this, it is bogus.



also check this out;

"...because physics students already receive extensive maths training
before they graduate."