Journal articles can be read strategically by skipping peripheral detail and unfamiliar statistics

Evidence

There are, however, more efficient approaches—approaches that enable you, a student of social psychology, to cut through peripheral details, avoid sophisticated statistics with which you may not be familiar, and focus on the central ideas in an article. Arming yourself with a little foreknowledge of what is contained in journal articles, as well as some practical advice on how to read them, should help you read journal articles more effectively. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4545

Categorization

• SEED: Could seed an article on efficient academic reading as a transferable skill — how to extract core hypotheses from dense empirical papers without reading linearly.