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I wonder if people are reluctant to do this because they would be scrutinized more and perhaps their phd, Grant etc might be at risk? If so, is the only soluti
by cellular 7y ago
I wonder if people are reluctant to do this because they would be scrutinized more and perhaps their phd, Grant etc might be at risk?
If so, is the only solution to give"credit" towards the phd, grant etc in the form of hours worked towards pushing knowledge acquisition, and not strict results?
- godelski 7y agoI think it is partially that (but minor). Partially embarrassment (frequently code is rushed). Partially people view code/data as a trade secret. The latter I find anti-scientific, especially since a lot of funding comes from public money. I'm okay with holding on to it for a small period of time (because we live in an unfortunate world where sharing knowledge can't come first and people need to secure funding), but I don't think this should be a default mode that people do. Luckily it does seem that many are turning to GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab to make their code available. And everyone that's in a PhD or has one knows that the majority of work you do is failing (but you learn from that failure). Side note: I wonder if imposter syndrome would decrease if we were aware about one anothers' failures and didn't only see the accomplishments.