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If you're going to reward only high-quality studies you'll lose the larger part of scientists, because there are very little of them who can produce anything hi
by fiatjaf 9y ago
If you're going to reward only high-quality studies you'll lose the larger part of scientists, because there are very little of them who can produce anything high-quality.
What you're proposing is mass unemployment.
- haZard_OS 9y agoPerhaps but such changes, if they occur at all, would likely be gradual and so shifts in the structure of academia would cushion the fall. In any case, if we can't expect and even demand high-quality research from professional scientists, I fear we are doomed as a species.
- stordoff 9y agoIf the studies they are producing aren't high-quality, is there any value to them? Do we, as a whole (because some individuals will lose out, as you say), benefit by rewarding low standards of work? I'd also said that many may be _capable_ of high-quality work, but merely have limited incentives to produce it currently.