>I'm also reminded of the classic story of the pottery teacher who graded one class by final project quality and another by total weight produced over the class

>I'm also reminded of the classic story of the pottery teacher who graded one class by final project quality and another by total weight produced over the class period, and found that the latter group ended up producing higher quality work. Higgs in this article seems to be of the persuasion that in his profession, the former style produces better results. I think many of us here would find that intuitively wrong in general. Wait, how is pottery equivalent to significant expansion of the bounds of scientific knowledge? Humans mastered the contours of pottery thousands of years before farming was a thing, we have no such bearing wrt scientific knowledge.