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It seems kind of obvious that peer review is going to reward peer think, peer citation, and academic incremental advance. Obviously that's not how innovation wo
by HarHarVeryFunny 3y ago
It seems kind of obvious that peer review is going to reward peer think, peer citation, and academic incremental advance. Obviously that's not how innovation works.
- fatherzine 3y agothe system, as flawed as it is, is very effective for its purpose. see eg "success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration". on a darker side, the purpose is not to be fair to any particular individual, or even to be conducive to human flourishing at large.
- HarHarVeryFunny 3y agoyes - maybe a good filter for future academic success, which seems to be a game unto itself
- pas 3y agoacademia is not about innovation, it should be trying to tend to the big self-referential kaleidoscope of knowledge. mostly it should try to do it through falsifying things, of course groupthing is seldom effective at that.