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Given Psychology has invented the word 'Replication Crisis', it makes me quite anti-academia. I'm not saying we get 0 valuable output from Academia, I know bet
by resource_waste 2y ago
Given Psychology has invented the word 'Replication Crisis', it makes me quite anti-academia.
I'm not saying we get 0 valuable output from Academia, I know better to say extreme statements like that.
I have seen the people who get PhDs and they are not A or B students... They are the ones that Industry wouldn't accept.
I have read what is deemed 'science', and more time is spent calculating statistics, than understanding their dataset was a terrible. It looks really fancy.
I have read what is published in 'Prestigious' journals like Nature, and there doesnt seem to be a correlation between replicable and predictive science and trendy ideas.
What recently irked me, I was talking to a a tenured/post-doc/professor, and we pulled up some scientific study that seemed like it contradicted the empirical evidence I observed. He looked at the publisher, 'Nature', accepted it, and moved on instantly. I immediately scrolled down to the Data. It seems like Academia is more of an Authority than Science.
- MarkPNeyer 2y agoWe’re watching the Protestant reformation 2.0 play itself out. The role of the Catholic church is this time being played by the technocratic establishment of NGO’s, academia and mass media.
- UncleMeat 2y agoHaving done both academia and industry, my experience is that the amount of wrong conclusions and bullshit delivery in industry vastly outweighs what exists in academia.
- blharr 2y ago>I was talking to a tenured/post-doc/professor... To be fair, in all of industry, academia, and politics this stuff happens. The leaders, CEOs, and presidents rarely have any knowledge of the technical matters at all and will BS their way to conclusions in the same way.