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Not to mention the importance of stupendipity – the lucky discoveries you make thanks to your woeful ignorance of common knowledge in the field, or just sheer b
by thedailymail 4y ago
Not to mention the importance of stupendipity – the lucky discoveries you make thanks to your woeful ignorance of common knowledge in the field, or just sheer bone-headedness.
- idrathernot 4y agoPeople generally under appreciate just how many groundbreaking scientific discoveries have been made at least partially by accident or aimless tinkering. It leads me to believe that STEM fields shouldn’t be so selective in weeding out below average students. So if you increase the population of researchers/tinkerers, the probability of one of them stumbling across something incredibly useful rises. Obviously it depends on the field though and the cost of individual failures needs to be minimized.