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I have a high level question that I don't see answered, but maybe I missed it? Are most studies conducted by folks in academia before they get tenure? That is,
by blakesterz 10y ago
I have a high level question that I don't see answered, but maybe I missed it?
Are most studies conducted by folks in academia before they get tenure? That is, are most of these results that they're trying to replicate or study done by people who are rather new to doing studies? Is this even possible to know? My guess would be yes, but really I don't have much to base that on. And if that is a yes could that have something to do with the problem here?
- marcosdumay 10y agoMost people doing science don't have and probably never will have tenure. My guess would be that most small studies are set and conducted by people under immediate evaluation. I don't have any good guess about large ones.
- bbctol 10y agoWell... most studies are conducted by a lab run by someone with tenure. Most people doing the experimental design and research do not have tenure, but are trying to get there. Most people doing the actual grunt work of running tests, drawing blood, dissecting mice, wrangling data, and so on, are grad students or undergrads there to learn. And if that's a problem, it could only be solved by a serious overhaul of the funding model for research.
- wycx 10y agoMost studies are done by people who need high impact publications to secure funding to do more studies to produce high impact publications to secure funding to do more studies... Not having a permanent job just serves as additional motivation to get high impact publications to secure a job.