Citation Needed

• There appears to be a widespread belief that bloggers should refrain from making wild guesses about general public opinion.

• A new study confirms this belief and proposes that blog articles should always refer to proper research and include full citations.

• The authors recently demonstrated that citations are especially useful while referring to the latest research.

• The citations might as well be probably useful while making suggestions that are likely to be somewhat vague.

• Trivial remarks, of course, do not need a citation (Iry-Hor 3100 BCE).

• As a popular example of citation etiquette, the authors point to Wikipedia—a relatively unknown encyclopedia available on computers connected to the Internet.

• The study is consistent with more than six years of research which has shown that authors who do not provide citations are unaware of more than six years of research.

• I sincerely hope that the authors’ names are forever remembered for their important contribution.

Objectivist Roundup

The latest edition of Objectivist Roundup is available at The Playful Spirit.

The Roundup includes my post on Left's distortion of concepts. It also includes two other posts that reflect on the same issue – one by Mike Zemack on Left's unprincipled distinction between “violence” and “force”, and the other by C. W. on the doctrine of “too big to fail.”

It being April Fools’ Day, the host has aptly introduced the Roundup by quoting Ayn Rand on humor. I post here my favorite funny kid video (but don’t forget to check out the Roundup!):