@Ruth_Mottram@rewildingmag I’ve stopped writing impersonally in my papers. It’s not necessary, and the old papers didn’t do that either (case in point: Heisenberg’s paper is surprisingly readable!). Seems like somewhere along the line, someone came up with that “rule” and made scientists believe it, but it distances us from normal people unnecessarily.
@doc@Ruth_Mottram@rewildingmag very good point!
I tend to use a mix of both. Present the setup and data in the passive voice and the discussion in the active voice as the interpretation is a lot more related to the question we had set to answer and the ideas we have around a topic.
(I also know that how we preserve data is subjective, but we do our best so that it's not too much so)
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