Some silly but useful advice: go through and remove all contentless words and phrases, such as:
Andrew Gelman
– “Of course”
– “Note that”
– “Interestingly”
– “very”
– “nice”
– “We can see that”
– “It is important to note that”
I don’t encounter the word “nice” in many research articles, but the rest of these are common and useless. Cut them with extreme prejudice. – Ben
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