Where’s the rest of the pepperoni?

• Mar 8, 2018 • by Paul Ingraham
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So many times I’ve been intrigued by the abstract of a scientific paper, dug into the whole thing, and COULD NOT FIND THE REST OF THE PEPPERONI.

Side-by-side meme comparing scientific abstracts to full papers using a pizza. Left panel, captioned “When you just read the abstract,” shows a closed pizza box with a window revealing what appears to be a generously pepperoni-covered pizza. Right panel, captioned “When you read the whole thing,” shows the opened box revealing a cheese pizza with only three pepperoni slices clustered near the centre — implying that the abstract gave a misleadingly favourable impression compared to the full paper.

Source unknown to me.