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Unfortunately, the actual research paper is behind a paywall. I wonder what do intelligent people think about placing publicly funded research behind paywalls.



You didn't miss anything by not going through the paywall. I did go through the paywall, and found the same tired "study" that PZ has already decried:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/stop_patting_your...

This seems to be the flavor du jour in self-congratulation, but there isn't well established research here.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html


While I won't pretend to be one of those intelligent people I do have an opinion about publicly funded research. I think publicly funded research should be released into the public domain (or under license similar to the Creative Commons Attribution [1]) since the public funded it.

[1]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/




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