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This is simply wrong. There is loads of academic research born out of industrial collaborations which is absolutely focused on how useful it is. Applied researc
by sfpotter 3y ago
This is simply wrong. There is loads of academic research born out of industrial collaborations which is absolutely focused on how useful it is. Applied research exists in academia.
On the flip side, if you think the only place you can do something "applicable" is by working as a quant... again, wrong!
If anything, the idea that research is free to disregard applicability (read: "relevance to anyone outside academia") is what's a lazy canard. :-) People who are wrestling with whether their research is applicable are struggling to figure out how to connect it to the rest of society, which is valuable. It's responsible of them to do so.
- ducttapecrown 3y agoYou didn't engage with the argument of the comment above you at all, you engaged with imagined arguments: that there is no academic research that is focused on research, and that the only place to do something applicable is finance. The above comment said nothing of the sort, it only claimed that research did not have to be motivated by applications, and provided evidence: such research in the past has been incredibly applicable.
- sfpotter 3y ago'If you want to work on "applicability", go get a job in industry.'