Dubner: There are a lot of reasons why most scientists don’t write well. Perhaps the biggest one is that they’ve been incentivized for their entire careers to write in a style that is directly opposite the sort of clear and compelling language that most people want to read. And that’s because they’re not writing for “most people”—they’re writing primarily for each other, in their journals.
Dubner: There are a lot of reasons why most scientists don’t write well. Perhaps the biggest one is that they’ve been incentivized for their entire careers to write in a style that is directly opposite the sort of clear and compelling language that most people want to read. And that’s because they’re not writing for “ most people—they’re writing primarily for each other, in their journals.
