[Amygaz]

Any time before the advent of "supplementary materials" pretty much meant that you had nothing more than a highlight of the method. It was terrible indeed.

However, even today I find that roughly half the publications are not worth the paper they are printed on, or the bandwidth to download them.

[nonbel]

Check out pre-1940 papers (the year may be later depending on exact sub field). I've seen that they used to make it a point to include all the info (including raw data) to the point it was practical. Somewhere along the line the attitudes went wrong, I blame NHST personally.

[eicossa]

NHST ? What's that ?

[nonbel]

I explained it and provided some references in an earlier post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13483055

Here is another reference you could check: http://andrewgelman.com/2016/02/04/the-notorious-n-h-s-t-pre...