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Covid aside, I became somewhat disillusioned with academia during my graduate studies. Many/most papers were not reproducible and were generally of low quality.
by goalieca 5y ago
Covid aside, I became somewhat disillusioned with academia during my graduate studies. Many/most papers were not reproducible and were generally of low quality. Students were often pushed through the system by their advisors who gained points for each student graduating but not until a maximum number of papers had been extracted from them.
- gher-shyu3i 5y agoHow do you think it's possible to address this issue?
- goalieca 5y agoGoodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure," We focus too much on metrics for funding. It’s rare nowadays that a researcher can work on something for years and be allowed to take risks and fail. There’s little reward for reproduction and even less for knowledge translation (putting it into practice!)
- yellow02 5y agoThe more Jews in a field the worse Mafia behavior and ethics.