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I feel like academica kind of incentivizes this. It’s hard to resist without a good base of support, and I feel like having such a base isn’t the average. I not

by zzt123 5y ago

I feel like academica kind of incentivizes this. It’s hard to resist without a good base of support, and I feel like having such a base isn’t the average. I notice this pressure felt strongly across the board by my friends who are adjuncts (or tenure-track, but not yet tenured) in the soft sciences. But this is just anecdotal of course.

wolverine876 5y ago
> I feel like academica kind of incentivizes this. It’s hard to resist without a good base of support Incentivizes what? What is hard to resist?
- zzt123 5y ago
  Getting a certain volume of publications out. It can be problematic for example when you discover a minor data issue which might not materially change the thesis in your opinion, but if one were wholly following academic guidelines, would warrant delays while you attempt to fix the data issue, if possible. I’ve seen this happen a few times in papers that were never fixed, nor the issue brought up as far as I’m aware. Granted, in each case the thesis was still fine but… makes me wonder about the cases I don’t know about. One of the cases skirted really close to the edge of bs.