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You don't have to 'know the science' to the degree of detail the people driving the research part of the project are, I think the bigger problem is many of the
by pvg 4y ago
You don't have to 'know the science' to the degree of detail the people driving the research part of the project are, I think the bigger problem is many of the opportunities for grunt work go to undergrads and graduate students where the hope (in theory at least) is that it also helps advance their educational goals.
- dontbenebby 4y agoNo, the goal is cheap labor, they hire more PhD students than there are tenure track positions, this was a common gripe when so many undergrads commited suicide at IU, they threatened to shut down the newspaper if they reported it and told grad students who were basically extorted into finishing under the threat their advisers would forever gatekeep roles that would take them out of precarity. (That's why I dropped out, worked briefly in policy, learned to hack, then sold stock out of my retirement fund to get an open source intelligence certification from Bellingcat -- because THAT MANY sets of people refused to follow basic social norms.)