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It's almost as though science is a complex job that occasionally requires a lot of work.
by InclinedPlane 8y ago
It's almost as though science is a complex job that occasionally requires a lot of work.
- mirimir 8y agoSure, but eight years? Edit: What I'm getting at is that this seems a profound result, with perhaps crucial implications. Not some minor detail, of only arcane interest.
- hanniabu 8y agoIf only they had a more reasonable budget for their undertakings
- TangoTrotFox 8y agoI think it's important to question what this means, lest we reward inept agencies with more money. Not to say that the agency that did take this long would necessarily be inept, but if you give access to the sufficient data for let's say a post-doc of appropriate background, would it be reasonable for this single person earning scraps, as post-docs are wont to do, to take e.g. 8 years? It's just quite a peculiar issue.
- anonytrary 8y ago> this seems a profound result, with perhaps crucial implications I'm not sure about this case in particular, but in general this is actually a good argument as to why something would take longer than usual. A lot of work has to be verified, especially groundbreaking work.
- InclinedPlane 8y agoHow long it "should" take is something that experts in that field might weigh in on. Are you an expert in that field? A related field? If you have literally zero context why are you raising such a fuss? Do you have any context on how long discoveries take in any scientific field whatsoever?