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Just to establish a base line.. can you give any example of a specific kind of academic research that would qualify as a waste of resources? Or is everything w
by photonthug 3y ago
Just to establish a base line.. can you give any example of a specific kind of academic research that would qualify as a waste of resources? Or is everything worth it by definition?
I get that as a process science and the pursuit of knowledge require us to prove some “obvious“ things because hey, it might not be as obvious as you think and you might learn something. But with that attitude how do you even want to establish the boundaries or the agenda of what we ought to research?
- lapcat 3y ago> Just to establish a base line.. can you give any example of a specific kind of academic research that would qualify as a waste of resources? I don't have an example off the top of my head. This isn't an issue that I track or have a particular concern with. > But with that attitude how do you even want to establish the boundaries or the agenda of what we ought to research? I would generally leave those judgments to the academic community, who I don't consider infallible by any means but do consider significantly less fallible in their judgments of the value of academic work than, say, anonymous commenters on Hacker News.
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