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Judging from the replication crisis in many fields, maybe getting a PhD doesn't teach the scientific mindset as much as we'd hoped.
by JamesBarney 8y ago
Judging from the replication crisis in many fields, maybe getting a PhD doesn't teach the scientific mindset as much as we'd hoped.
- kei929 8y agoIt seems to me since we don’t yet know the truth around large swaths of reality (dark matter and such topics), a replication crisis is exactly what we should expect You have to eliminate a lot of possibilities in a universe with this much detail The real issue, again IMO, is more of an “expectation crisis”. We expected to repeat this and failed to. Because we’re still a ridiculously ignorant species lacking conscious awareness of many aspects of reality
- vkou 8y agoWhen a man's salary depends on him doing his job poorly, is it really all that surprising that he will cut corners? If you don't reward (By issuing grants for) negative results, or null results, or replicating prior studies, why do you expect that scientists will aim for any of those outcomes?