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{{g}}:''If you supply a typical copy editor with a text, he will propose a certain number of edits, say about five changes per page. Now accept his “corrections” and give this text to another copy editor who tends to have the same average rate of intervention (editors vary in interventionism), and you will see that he will suggest an equivalent number of edits, sometimes reversing changes made by the previous editor. Find a third editor, same.'' | {{g}}:''If you supply a typical copy editor with a text, he will propose a certain number of edits, say about five changes per page. Now accept his “corrections” and give this text to another copy editor who tends to have the same average rate of intervention (editors vary in interventionism), and you will see that he will suggest an equivalent number of edits, sometimes reversing changes made by the previous editor. Find a third editor, same.'' | ||
: —{{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} {{br|Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder}} | : —{{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} {{br|Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder}} | ||
The [[iatrogenic]] effect of needing to be seen to do something, ''to justify showing up''. Hello, [[legal eagles]]. |
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- If you supply a typical copy editor with a text, he will propose a certain number of edits, say about five changes per page. Now accept his “corrections” and give this text to another copy editor who tends to have the same average rate of intervention (editors vary in interventionism), and you will see that he will suggest an equivalent number of edits, sometimes reversing changes made by the previous editor. Find a third editor, same.
- —Nassim Nicholas Taleb Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
The iatrogenic effect of needing to be seen to do something, to justify showing up. Hello, legal eagles.