I think this is fair—it would be ridiculous to expect disclosure of the use of a dictionary. I’d be in favour of this being down to social norms / personal behaviour because I think it’s not the most clear thing in the world.
I still personally think there’s something qualitatively different. Imagine you have to go through 80 pages of calculations and the author tells you they used a calculator which routinely makes errors at random. In theory you expect the author to back their work and have checked it… in practice.… I worry lots of people don’t.. As a consumer I’d rather know what tool was used.
Another analogy would be how code and packages use are standard disclosures in papers.
I think this is fair—it would be ridiculous to expect disclosure of the use of a dictionary. I’d be in favour of this being down to social norms / personal behaviour because I think it’s not the most clear thing in the world.
I still personally think there’s something qualitatively different. Imagine you have to go through 80 pages of calculations and the author tells you they used a calculator which routinely makes errors at random. In theory you expect the author to back their work and have checked it… in practice.… I worry lots of people don’t.. As a consumer I’d rather know what tool was used.
Another analogy would be how code and packages use are standard disclosures in papers.