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I disagree with you on academia, as the checks & balances plus the peer review system for worldwide recognised published research kill and destroy bullshitters.

by jaoued 12y ago

I disagree with you on academia, as the checks & balances plus the peer review system for worldwide recognised published research kill and destroy bullshitters. I am not saying there aren't any but having been in both academia & corporate, the latter is infested with them. In startup world, they get also eliminated quite rapidly as they will just fail. Success of any startups is not to raise funds but to get customers who will pay for value and for that bullshitters cannot trick the system.

Allower 12y ago
"the checks & balances plus the peer review system for worldwide recognised published research kill and destroy bullshitters" if only this was true!!
TeMPOraL 12y ago
Well it is already painfully visible that "checks & balances plus peer review" is barely managing to hold science together. Research has already been thoroughly gamed on a systemic level. Scientific funding and the whole "publish and perish" culture pretty much promotes bullshit over real research nowadays. And while solutions are easy to name (increase rigor for statistical significance, publish negative results, make scientist pre-publish description of planned data analysis before collecting data, etc.) they are almost impossible to implement, as everyone inside the system is trapped by the incentive structures that drive the whole thing.
- patkai 12y ago
  Exactly, but if you are a member of the cult you can't admit this.
LunaSea 12y ago
A very high percentage of memoirs, thesis and research papers that contain source code doesn't compile, run or work as expected. Peer review doesn't work in science because nobody cares to review unknown or lesser known authors.
grayclhn 12y ago
Ah, you must have never had to deal with administration. Or so I've heard. All of the administration at my university is of course irreproachable. (Hi boss!) But the stories my friends tell me... ;)

by jaoued 12y ago

Allower 12y ago

"the checks & balances plus the peer review system for worldwide recognised published research kill and destroy bullshitters" if only this was true!!

TeMPOraL 12y ago

Well it is already painfully visible that "checks & balances plus peer review" is barely managing to hold science together. Research has already been thoroughly gamed on a systemic level. Scientific funding and the whole "publish and perish" culture pretty much promotes bullshit over real research nowadays. And while solutions are easy to name (increase rigor for statistical significance, publish negative results, make scientist pre-publish description of planned data analysis before collecting data, etc.) they are almost impossible to implement, as everyone inside the system is trapped by the incentive structures that drive the whole thing.

patkai 12y ago
Exactly, but if you are a member of the cult you can't admit this.

LunaSea 12y ago

A very high percentage of memoirs, thesis and research papers that contain source code doesn't compile, run or work as expected. Peer review doesn't work in science because nobody cares to review unknown or lesser known authors.

grayclhn 12y ago

Ah, you must have never had to deal with administration. Or so I've heard. All of the administration at my university is of course irreproachable. (Hi boss!) But the stories my friends tell me... ;)