Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole
Skim the preprint <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04184" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04184</a> , especially section 7.<p>The article is not fit for publication in a mathematical journal, it is cosplaying as math.<p>To cite:<p>> The following simple proposition may be well known, but since no reference is known to the author, a proof is included for completeness.<p>>Proposition 7.1. N(µ, σ1) is more variable than N(µ, σ2) if and only if σ1 > σ2.<p>>Proof: [lots of lines]<p>In a real mathematical paper, this claim would not be glorified into a numbered proposition, and it would not merit a proof; this amount of mathematical work is the distance between one line and the next. I would not even expect students to provide a proof for such utter trivialities in a homework assignment.<p>Author should have submitted to PNAS instead, or written a blogpost.