Research Debt

Chris Olah, Shan Carter, 2017. Distill.

An essay in Distill arguing that poor explanation leaves a field with 'research debt', and that distilling and explaining results is itself research work.

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The inquiry-framework survey lists it among models for the site's presentation, for the argument that explanation and distillation count as research.

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Olah, C., & Carter, S. (2017). Research Debt. Distill. https://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/

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  title = {Research Debt},
  howpublished = {Distill},
  year = {2017},
  url = {https://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/}
}

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Olah, Chris and Shan Carter. “Research Debt.” Distill (2017).