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>Are you suggesting we should allow less people to graduate in order to fix the problem? Yes of course. As per "The Mythical Man-Month"[1] adding more people t
by dexen 7y ago
>Are you suggesting we should allow less people to graduate in order to fix the problem?
Yes of course. As per "The Mythical Man-Month"[1] adding more people to a project doesn't speed id up - quite the opposite, slows it down.
Right now we have huge overhead in training and communication. Low s/n ratio follows. You can fix that gatekeeping science a bit better - pick more talented, better educated, harder working candidates, and train & finance & supply them better.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
- buzzkillington 7y ago>Right now we have huge overhead in training and communication. Low s/n ratio follows. You can fix that gatekeeping science a bit better - pick more talented, better educated, harder working candidates, and train & finance & supply them better. None of that. A lottery of everyone who can pass a minimum literacy exam in their field. Looking at the luminaries of any field to a very good approximation none of them are "more talented, better educated, harder working candidates", in fact being lazy, combative and self taught is usually a better predictor for ground breaking discoveries. The people who you would pick are already the ones in academia and they are the ones who created the replication crisis.