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If we had a rather good way of attracting, selecting and retaining top scientists then by power laws inherent in any creative/competitive endeavour we’d expect
by gampleman 2y ago
If we had a rather good way of attracting, selecting and retaining top scientists then by power laws inherent in any creative/competitive endeavour we’d expect that by increasing funding drastically to get more people employed we’d only see very marginal improvements, as the wider base of the talent won’t contribute all that much.
- tuatoru 2y agoYes. Heretical opinion: we should have much stronger merit-based gating on access to university. You can get in if you can demonstrate facility with real analysis, matrix algebra, and Bayesian reasoning. Imagine how much the general level of educational noise would be reduced in universities, and how much more space there would be to do meaningful research.