{"id":1484,"date":"2008-08-07T23:27:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T07:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2008-08-07T23:27:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T07:27:12","slug":"being-prepared-to-be-surprised-and-to-learn-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/being-prepared-to-be-surprised-and-to-learn-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Being prepared to be surprised &#8211; and to learn something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2008\/08\/08\/ref-checking\/\">In a post on reviewing academic articles<\/a>, I was really struck by the way academics deal with surprises.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yes, I regularly check (some) references. If the author of a (history) paper I am refereeing makes a surprising claim \u2013 e.g., something that if true I might reasonably be expected to have encountered before, not just something I know FA about \u2013 I almost instinctively check to see what his\/her source is, and if it&#8217;s something I have readily to hand, may actually go to the text to see if it supports what the author concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Usually it does, and I&#8217;ve learned something new.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From surprise to curiosity to learning. \u00a0 Straight forward enough, but how many of us dismiss surprises outright, or believe them straight away?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on reviewing academic articles, I was really struck by the way academics deal with surprises. Yes, I regularly check (some) references. If the author of a (history) paper I am refereeing makes a surprising claim \u2013 e.g., something that if true I might reasonably be expected to have encountered before, not just something I know FA about \u2013 I almost instinctively check to see what his\/her source is, and if it&#8217;s something I have readily to hand, may actually go to the text to see if it supports what the author concluded. Usually it does, and I&#8217;ve &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-nW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}