_hxy4

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   by _hxy4 7y ago

   > I think you should consider listening more to your supervisor. I know nothing about your field, but I've seen a lot of PhDs go off the rails because they chased after something they thought was a great idea only to find it was a p
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   by _hxy4 7y ago

   To be clear, I'm not thinking specifically about hyped-up research that doesn't pan out. Low quality research in general is what I'm thinking about. And I see the vast majority of academics as well-intentioned and not manip
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   by _hxy4 7y ago

   Your view of the incentives argument is too narrow. In my experience, the people who actively try to game the system are rare. The majority of the problem is people and ideas being filtered out by the system. This comment by Daniel Lakela