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What are the incentives to address it? I can think of entire subfields where the whole premise is - IMHO - bullshit. (There are people who literally run lab exp
by dash2 8y ago
What are the incentives to address it? I can think of entire subfields where the whole premise is - IMHO - bullshit. (There are people who literally run lab experiments with 20 students in order to study how nations will contribute to climate change over the next century.) Do you think any of them want to admit that? To see how bad it can get, consider New Real Peer Review (https://twitter.com/realpeerreview https://twitter.com/realpeerreview). This is the extreme version, but it is the lower tail of a continuous distribution.
- asciident 8y agoThe incentive is that they're academics and want to do the right thing. Maybe more pessemistically, they don't want to be called out by other academics doing the right thing. If we go back to the original topic, which is that deidentifying data with some known fields is possible, do you think a reputable academic will want to be known for denying a simple arithmetic estimation? They'd be the laughingstock in their department and community.