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• mnky9800n 3y ago
  Yes this is true. I got into education research from physics because I thought the dynamics of learning could be very interesting to model. But we simply lack the institutional ability to implement such observations necessary to build such a model. So I zoomed out and built models on how students made choices between semesters at their university (what class they will take, will they switch their major, will they drop out). But ultimately I got bored. Now I work on ai related to acoustics. It's a shame. There are data sets out there that can be mined, I was offered a postdoc with a company in Minnesota doing it with data from millions of school children. But they were more interested in me modelling whether a student would have a behaviour problem tomorrow so they could integrate it into their platform and sell as a product to schools. I wasn't much interested in helping to build something like that.