My first thought is that the authors were referencing the use of the P-value
or various confidence intervals when a paper tries to convey some "significance" to the findings.
I agree that all scientific papers should include the statistics but much better, the actual data used to get those statistics.
On another note - I also am a voracious hoarder of articles that I think might be of some interest in one of my future lives. (I used to think one of my children would have an interest in what I do, but I've been dissuaded.)
I do find that some of the open-source search tools such as recoll, docfetcher, etc. are great for looking up documents in all of my scattered folders, whether from PDFs, emails/attachments. With some subtle crafting of a search query I have found an awful lot of useful nuggets amongst all the rest of my fool's gold.
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