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Deplorable Presentation of Results of Fishery Research
Author(s) -
Greenbank John
Publication year - 1954
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1953)83[115:dporof]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - clarity , meaning (existential) , presentation (obstetrics) , criticism , decimal , set (abstract data type) , computer science , fishery , mathematical economics , epistemology , mathematics , arithmetic , law , philosophy , biology , political science , programming language , medicine , biochemistry , radiology
A large proportion of the current fishery research literature is cluttered with superfluous mathematical material, such as numbers expressed in too many significant digits or decimal places, data written more precisely than is justified by the experimental procedure, or complicated formulae and equations. This criticism applies particularly to papers published in the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, a professedly practical journal. Much of this redundant matter could be omitted, with no appreciable loss in clarity or meaning; however, cases vary, and it is impossible to set any hard and fast standards of form.