Ce que les chercheurs écrivent ou disent, et ce qu’ils pensent “vraiment” (en anglais)
Document reproduit à partir d’une archive du GERSULP (Groupe d’Etude et de Recherche sur la Science de l’Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg).
Il semble que ce document ait été beaucoup repris, notamment sur de nombreux sites internet (“ce document est connu depuis longtemps“). Je serais intéressée par la source initiale si quelqu’un la connaît (“je n’ai pas trouvé la référence d’origine”).
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What they REALLY Mean
Excerpts from the “Dictionary of Useful Research Phrases”
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PHRASE |
MEANING |
| “While it has not been possible to provide definite answers to these questions…” | An unsuccessful experiment, but I still hope to get it published. |
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| “It has long been known…” | I didn’t look up the original reference. |
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| “A definite trend is evident…” | These data are practically meaningless. |
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| “Of great theoretical and practical importance…” | Interesting to me… |
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| “Three of samples were chosen for detailed study…” | The results of the others didn’t make any sense. |
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| “Typical results are shown…” | The best results are shown. |
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| “These results will be shown in a subsequent report.” | I might get around to this sometime if I’m pushed. |
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| “The most reliable results are those obtains by Jones…” | He was my graduate assistant. |
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| “It is believed that…”– | I think. |
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| “It is generally believed that”– | A couple of other guys think so, too. |
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| “It is clear that much additional work will be required before a complete understanding of the phenomenon occurs”– | I don’t understand it. |
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| “Correct within an order of magnitude”– | Wrong. |
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| “It is hoped that this study will stimulate further investigation in this field…”– | This is a lousy paper, but so are all the others on this miserable topic. |
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| “Thanks are due to Joe Blotz for assistance with the experiment and to George Frink for valuable discussions…”– | Blotz did the work and Frink explained to me what it meant. |
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| “A careful analysis of obtainable data…”– | Three pages of notes were obliterated when I knocked over a glass of beer. |
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| “A statistically-oriented projection of the significance of these finding…”– | A wild guess. |
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| A highly significant area for exploratory study…”– | A totally useless topic selected by my committee. |
Helga Llewellyn and Eigil Morch
From UNICEF Staff News
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Mélodie Faury (11 juillet 2012). Ce que les chercheurs écrivent ou disent, et ce qu’ils pensent “vraiment” (en anglais). L'Infusoir. Consulté le 9 octobre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/qcgi
je pense que c’est peut-être le livre d’adrian berry, “the book of scientific anecdotes” : http://amzn.to/NpwDgF
il y a une liste comme ça étudiée dans “science de la science et réflexivité” de bourdieu et elle est extraite de gilbert et mulkay 1984 : http://bit.ly/PO42rO
et dans la thèse de marie-claude roland sur l’écriture scientifique il y a un chapitre là-dessus mais je ne la trouve plus en ligne, je dois avoir le pdf quelque part : http://bit.ly/Oz87Lx
bon corpus pour travailler l’éthique de la recherche…
Merci beaucoup !