{"id":2013,"date":"2024-06-06T17:32:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2024-06-06T17:32:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:32:35","slug":"brevity-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2024\/06\/06\/brevity-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Brevity update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2018\/08\/30\/brevity-again\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"571\">a while<\/a> since I&#8217;ve updated the plot of paper-length over time to check in on whether I have become more long-winded as I&#8217;ve gotten older. Short answer: I have not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The blue line is the linear fit to all the data. It is basically flat, suggesting that I am about as concise as I have ever been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The green line is the linear fit to just the coauthored papers. It has trended down, partly because I&#8217;ve had a few coauthored discussion notes in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/paper-length202406.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"783\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/paper-length202406.png?resize=783%2C572&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A graph of paper length by year of publication.\" class=\"wp-image-2012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/paper-length202406.png?w=783&amp;ssl=1 783w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/paper-length202406.png?resize=300%2C219&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/paper-length202406.png?resize=768%2C561&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A graph of how long my papers have been, by year of publication.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve updated the plot of paper-length over time to check in on whether I have become more long-winded as I&#8217;ve gotten older. Short answer: I have not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[46,10],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-brevity","tag-my-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-wt","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}