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butlike on Aug 5, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysi...

It's really hard when there's no metrics beyond "perceived intelligence."

gus_massa on Aug 5, 2025 [–]

Citation numbers, weighted by impact factor, h-index, number of Ph.D. students... that are bad proxies for "perceived intelligence".

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