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The replication crisis is a real example of an incentive problem rampant in the current system. However, this leads to a disproportionate emphasis on original
by stonogo 7y ago
The replication crisis is a real example of an incentive problem rampant in the current system. However, this leads to a disproportionate emphasis on original research. Accusing it of leading to the things you talked about is a non sequitur.
Again, by no means is academia perfect. But insisting that its primary problem is that grant writers are a pack of pathological liars is both incorrect and unhelpful in solving actual problems, that's all.
And yeah. I would say that most people would benefit from regular refreshers on statistics... in or out of academia.
- feral 7y ago> Accusing it of leading to the things you talked about is a non sequitur. I didn't say the replication crisis lead to bad incentives. I cited it as evidence bad incentives exist. > But insisting that its primary problem is that grant writers are a pack of pathological liars I didn't say remotely that. Academics have incentives to make their work sound overly impressive, and many are playing this game. That doesn't mean every grant writer is a pathological liar, but it's very naive to think they aren't incentivised to oversell findings, and many do.