4 ms·
> You can’t just turn a dial and add more talent. I'm not sure I agree there. It's notoriously hard to get/keep a research position, especially a) in academia
by mattkrause 6y ago
> You can’t just turn a dial and add more talent.
I'm not sure I agree there. It's notoriously hard to get/keep a research position, especially a) in academia and b) outside CS. There are a decent number of graduate student slots, some postdocs, and then you're thrown into the thunder dome.
The competition itself--and the resulting uncertainty--chases a lot of people into other careers. The people in my grad school cohort who "left" research were just as smart and often just as successful (in terms of papers, etc) as those that stayed.
It's not hard to imagine some policy tweaks that could have kept some of them in research.
- derbOac 6y ago>The people in my grad school cohort who "left" research were just as smart and often just as successful (in terms of papers, etc) as those that stayed. There's research to support that actually: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/12/11/new-study-says-scientists-are-leaving-academic-work-unprecedented-rates https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/12/11/new-study-say... Buried in that paper they basically show the hazard rate for exiting academics is sort of uncorrelated with metrics like citation rate etc.