Making them up as I go (2)

1. Tell the truth.
2. Entice, or fail.
3. To emphasize, summarize.
4. If it ain't short, it don't work.
5. Be clear.


And so I don't forget:
Don't explain. Just tell a story.
Don't argue. Just say things that make sense.
Expect people to be bored by the writing, and shorten it.
Make the wording easy to take.

Remove Loose Ends -- the interesting one-liners that go nowhere.

Thursday, May 16, 2019

What does that mean?

From an abstract, at ScienceAdvances:
Our multilevel, time-lagged regressions also indicate that tolerance for individual rights predicted 20th century economic growth even better than secularization.
What does that mean? Does it mean that tolerance predicted growth "even better than secularization predicted growth" or "even better than tolerance predicted secularization" ?

I could probably go back to the source, read it more carefully, and figure out what they mean. But if the reader has to do that, the writer is not doing his job.
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