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ok, so you prefer to select for scientists who don't mind playing games instead of focusing 100% of their mental capacity on delivering scientific outcomes.
by throwawaymaths 2y ago
ok, so you prefer to select for scientists who don't mind playing games instead of focusing 100% of their mental capacity on delivering scientific outcomes.
- duxup 2y agoEveryone plays games, they fill out the grant proposal and forms as instructed and so on. We go to work and say good morning to our boss (I don't want to say good morning some days) and we roll on. I'm all for removing any actual requirement, beyond that I think folks are falling for a flimsy excuse made just to make cuts and keep folks terrified of a boogie man.
- throwawaymaths 2y agothe bogeyman is real. the quality of science is bad, we are having all sorts of crises in the sciences because in large part because the enterprise has selected for keeners who play games instead of honest people who do science. those honest scientists are quickly driven out and do other things with their lives.