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What are your favourite research papers?

Posted by i_agree
Tags: ask.survey, research, papers

I've been diving into Derek Parfit's thought-provoking "Why Anything? Why This?" and exploring Weber's fascinating "Sociology of Religion." It's ignited my curiosity about which research papers or articles have really resonated with you? I'm excited to broaden my reading horizons and discover some impactful reads!

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  1. Nihilego
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    I haven’t looked at any research paper in a long time myself(since I left Uni). But I remember this one and I like it for all the wrong reasons. https://biomedgrid.com/pdf/AJBSR.MS.ID.001256.pdf...

    I haven’t looked at any research paper in a long time myself(since I left Uni).
    But I remember this one and I like it for all the wrong reasons.

    https://biomedgrid.com/pdf/AJBSR.MS.ID.001256.pdf

    context https://www.the-scientist.com/critic-at-large/opinion-using-pokmon-to-detect-scientific-misinformation-68098
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  2. Alphalpha_Particle
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    This one Gendered Affordance Perception and Unequal Domestic Labor I found very interesting, and explained a lot of my frustrations when it comes to division of labor in the household. From the...

    This one Gendered Affordance Perception and Unequal Domestic Labor
    I found very interesting, and explained a lot of my frustrations when it comes to division of labor in the household.

    From the abstract, the paper explores two questions:

    Why do women continue to shoulder a disproportionate amount of housework and childcare despite economic and cultural gains? And why is there a widespread one-sided misrepresentation within different-sex couples about how domestic and caring work is distributed between the two partners? We answer these questions by appealing to affordance perception – the perception of possibilities for action in one's environment.

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  3. alp
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    This is hardly an obscure paper, but it's quite important to me. At 16 or 17 I was recommended by an academic to whom I very much looked up to read Turing's 1936/7 paper On computable numbers,...

    This is hardly an obscure paper, but it's quite important to me. At 16 or 17 I was recommended by an academic to whom I very much looked up to read Turing's 1936/7 paper On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem. More specifically, I was recommended Charles Petzold's annotated version that guides the layman through the density of the paper.

    Wow—that paper changed my life. Turing's delightfully creative approach changed my perception of mathematics and computer science so greatly! I emphasise so strongly the creativity: the paper had me laughing aloud at many points therethrough as Turing ventured to ways of thinking so clever, artful, unique that it's just silly. Of course, this paper and its definition of the Universal Machine changed the world, not just for its answer to the Entscheidungsproblem and the ramifications brought thereby, but through the definition of his Machines that laid the foundations of so much of today. Description Numbers in particular as a concept and their usage—wowee!

    This paper gave me hobbies, education, and a career, and I love it so much. :)

    Edit: I am ever so sorry—this is the humanities group! I got a bit carried away there and did not pay attention to where I was. Please excuse the irrelevance.

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