
158: Word limits
Everything Hertz
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How Word Counts Hurt People
Journal doesn't go by word count, it goes by pages. And that page count limit includes author names. So what all they had to do was, because the authors would take up six pages out of the 12,. They had to do a group authorship instead. This is a great example of how word counts, or in this case, page counts, can hurt people. But i never actually considered how this would affect science particularly stuff like the psychological science accelerator.
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