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Corporate KPI-chasing culture ruins everything. “Publish or perish” has hit such an extreme level. I imagine most academics would gladly not participate in thi
by Forgeties79 6mo ago
Corporate KPI-chasing culture ruins everything. “Publish or perish” has hit such an extreme level.
I imagine most academics would gladly not participate in this game if their entire livelihood didn’t depend on it
- sokoloff 6mo agoI think an awful lot of people would rather receive their livelihood without being subject to measurement.
- Forgeties79 6mo agoI didn’t say no measurements at all. I was very specific with my language
- kiba 6mo agoInstitutional design needs legibility to track people's reputation at scale. The problem is that these metrics are often poor substitutes. The difficulty is that nobody knows how to. My guess is that if you want good signaling, you'll need to find something that is difficult to fake. My guess are evolving benchmarks that measure many things in multiple dimensions, but benchmarks were easily gamed.
- bombcar 6mo agoYou can have it without benchmarks that can be gamed, but then it's basically down to "this feels right" and you have to trust the leadership to not be discriminatory, etc.
- raxxorraxor 6mo agoEvery serious academic knows it is complete crap, the problem is finding a better metric. Although the crappyness competes with "no metric at all" and I think the latter would be superior. The only advantage the current system has is that it is stupendously simple, so at least it is hard to manipulate.