If you are smart and lucky, by the time you get your PhD, you have figured out that your research discipline is fatally flawed and no meaningful progress is possible. Now you are stuck: unemployable except as an active colluder in obscuring this reality.
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Institutional reforms to unlock smart people stuck in dead-end disciplines might dramatically increase research productivity https://meaningness.com/metablog/upgrade-your-cargo-cult …pic.twitter.com/hHeqDirqBF
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There's something funny about the "right" amount of background reading to do. Too much and all you see is existing thinking, and risk making the same mistakes. Too little and you lack stimulation.
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Excellent point; retweeted!
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It happend to me too. I was interested in the concept of power. But everything seemed to be done. Then I decided for a purely applied work, in which the novel thing was the dataset. My PhD was in political science, where it makes sense to do the novel thing with a new dataset.
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It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
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I’m still laughing, partly because Phil also described broken fields as “a maze of twisty little arguments, all alike”!
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