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>> I've said it before but it bears repeating - replicating published results, and adding the findings to a database, should be a standard part of PhD training
by YeGoblynQueenne 2y ago
>> I've said it before but it bears repeating - replicating published results, and adding the findings to a database, should be a standard part of PhD training programs.
Wait, why should PhD students do that work? That just sounds like pushing more grunt work to the lower rung of the academic hierarchy.
Nope. If you want people to do that kind of work that is important to everyone but is not directly conducive to promoting one's research career then the solution is simple: pay them.
- bumby 2y ago>why should PhD students do that work? I think there is some reasonable argument that replicating research is the first step to learning how to do good research on your own. In an ideal world, PhD students should probably be trying to replicate similar work anyway and applying existing approaches own pet problem. In practice, many gloss over this because they are narrowly focused on doing something "new" so it can get published.
- glial 2y agoPhD students are in training, and replicating a published result is a great training exercise. PhD students ARE paid. But this work won't be prioritized by their PI unless it's also a requirement of the program.
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y ago>> PhD students are in training, and replicating a published result is a great training exercise. I just got my PhD last July and that sounds like boring drudgery rather than "good exercise". Good exercise is to have a student write their own paper, dig up their own references, formulate their own experimental hypotheses, run their own experiments, write up their own results etc. Re-doing someone else's possibly badly-done work is grunt work that should not be forced upon anyone. >> PhD students ARE paid. Haha. Good one XD
- anticensor 2y agoNot all doctoral students are paid as part of a research position.