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Every year the market grows tighter, and federal money for research grants, which support most of this research, remains flat. This makes me think we (as a cou
by sliverstorm 10y ago
Every year the market grows tighter, and federal money for research grants, which support most of this research, remains flat.
This makes me think we (as a country, a people), having trained all these scientists, have a market opportunity for inexpensive research, and we aren't taking advantage of it. Sure, the best and the brightest might fight their way to the top, but we can get perfectly good science out of the middle of the bell curve too.
- raziel2701 10y agoBut you need to find these researchers the equipment and infrastructure to do research, thus it's no longer inexpensive research. There's no money for this.
- danielweber 10y agoYou can't have a million researchers do a 4000 man-year project in a day. There are decreasing marginal returns from throwing more people at a problem. Especially if they are publishing, because now you need more people to curate their publications. And if you throw enough researchers at something, they are going to find a bunch of spurious results simply because of the luck of large numbers. I don't know if we are at that point. But adding a bunch of average people to a project can easily slow it down. If you want to help the existing researchers, mow their lawns and buy their groceries and take care of their house maintenance problems. Let them concentrate.
- sliverstorm 10y agoNot faster research, more scope. Things that we neglect today. Hell, form a paper review branch whose sole purpose is review/reproduction of results. We're not out of work to be done
- danielweber 10y agoThis is a good idea.