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Science discoveries don't just happen because there are more people "competing" to solve a problem. The more likely outcome of what you're saying is that you'd
by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Science discoveries don't just happen because there are more people "competing" to solve a problem. The more likely outcome of what you're saying is that you'd only have more teams competing, sure, but to redo each other's work.
- username90 5y agoThey don't even compete to solve the problem, they compete for funding. People who are better at politics gets more funding, so adding more people could even be net negative with them draining up all the funding from those who do the actual research.
- ALittleLight 5y agoThe replication crisis suggests to me that we'd probably benefit from lots of repeated work.
- forcry 5y agoAs an outside observer, replication crisis appear to more a result of other things like "publish or perish" and other politics in academics