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On its own it isn't, but I suspect if all of these were reported you might think it quite significant.
by devin 1y ago
On its own it isn't, but I suspect if all of these were reported you might think it quite significant.
- constantcrying 1y agoWhy do they not make an actual story out of this, do some research and publish whether there was some unusually high outflow of academics over the last two years? 25 people can not be an indication of anything. Academics especially are moving around often and take up work in different countries.
- foxglacier 1y agoEither it's too hard or it would show a nothing-burger. Anecdotes are better for spreading misinformation when you're constrained by being factual.
- hluska 1y agoCan you point out the misinformation?
- foxglacier 1y agoCalling it a "brain drain" when it's only 25 people. You can probably find 25 Austrian academics going to America and write the same brain drain article about that at the same time.
- hluska 1y agoThis Reuters article is based on a press release that was issued earlier today. The type of research you’re proposing would take weeks to be done, written and edited.
- ricardobeat 1y agoThese are researchers from Harvard, Princeton, and MIT. Sometimes there are only a handful of people worldwide in a particular field doing top level research.
- constantcrying 1y agoAnd sometimes there are tens of thousands or these fields are tiny for a reason.