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Sidney Redner on Statistics and Everyday Life

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How Many Times Have You Been Cited?

In the nineties, how did scientists get tenor for example? You'd have to look and how many times your papers were cited. And so that's where blas bar bossy got the idea of this preferential attachment notion. It turns out that that model was actually first solved by a guy named herbert simon in 55. But leaving that aside, the point is that no scientists care about how often they're cited.

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