Crow
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This is common mistake being made by the latest batch of historians in universities today. Because universities are increasingly profit driven. Then churn people out with degrees. Especially in humanities department.
The humanities history professor have to publish their own work every year and then mark student thesis. Professors are under increasing pressure to mark various thesis some times 30 -40 papers with thousands pages thesis to read . Which is incredibly time consuming hunting down references. Often references are overlooked because of time constraints. So what has happened identity politics have seemed to have into Historical research dictated by cognitive bias.
In many papers we get references quoted? We only get the authors interpretation of what is being said and not what actually is being said.
So some times things that are claimed fact are not facts at all.
Some times they use other peoples research with out fact checking the reference they give.
That is why researching is very hard.
Crow
The humanities history professor have to publish their own work every year and then mark student thesis. Professors are under increasing pressure to mark various thesis some times 30 -40 papers with thousands pages thesis to read . Which is incredibly time consuming hunting down references. Often references are overlooked because of time constraints. So what has happened identity politics have seemed to have into Historical research dictated by cognitive bias.
In many papers we get references quoted? We only get the authors interpretation of what is being said and not what actually is being said.
So some times things that are claimed fact are not facts at all.
Some times they use other peoples research with out fact checking the reference they give.
That is why researching is very hard.
Crow
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