rivp931

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   by rivp931 8y ago

   Pay for it in taxes, let the government set up an agency providing assistance. Would require big changes in the system you have in the US though, ugly bureaucracy, and whispering some forbidden words like "socialism". But it'
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   by rivp931 8y ago

   A first problem is how to recognize these incredibly brilliant people. The current answer to this is the tournament to tenured professorship. If you select those who already succeed in this system, you are not really doing anything new, so
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   by rivp931 8y ago

   Not really workable in practice. Are you going to lie in the project schedule section of the application? Nowadays the grant agencies expect to have Gantt charts and other crap. It also would require delaying publishing a work when it'
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   by rivp931 8y ago

   Not really --- in some languages these sayings actually are already in metric units. The SI system is by now over hundred years old, so just by waiting probably will upgrade unit system also there.
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   by rivp931 8y ago

   Going down this rabbit hole eventually leads you to nonparametric statistical tests, e.g. Mann-Whitney-U and so on.