"Science Don't Work So Good No More": either a GREAT chapter title or a TERRIBLE one Communicates that this isn't an academic theoretical tome; maybe the book could actually be useful? Also that it's amateurish and best ignored. Back to the coalface in the title mines I guess!
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Replying to @Meaningness
Do you want to say that it's less effective than it used to be? That's a very general and nebulous claim that seems hard to defend? Maybe pointing out some specific things that have gotten harder would be easier.
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It’s a widely held view, although difficult to quantitate, and therefore somewhat controversial. There are studies that purport to show the effect; I will cite them.
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The argument for diminishing returns is stronger than that of increased organizational dysfunction.
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Wrt. replication crisis in psych, ppl have been making same criticisms since the 60's, Meehl: https://thehardestscience.com/2012/10/04/paul-meehl-on-replication-and-significance-testing/ … That many see a crisis is net progress, but there is risk that a field lose any legit subject matter, so either disappear or pivot to explicit performance art.
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@skdh criticism of physics, esp the story of how it is caught between beautiful untestable new theory and existing theory that works all too well. Incentive is for research on ideas that seem testable and not yet known to be wrong. Many not-yet-wrong ideas out there.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Academic research has always been vulnerable to perverse incentives, but the sheer growth of academia, with yet an even greater increase in aspiration to be researchers, the mess is bigger. And we do have real-world problems that you'd think research should be relevant to.
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Yes; so I don’t find the “no low hanging fruit” theory persuasive over all (though it’s presumably true in eg particle physics). There are so many important, tractable problems and approaches that no one works on at all.
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I would be interested in reading about some of these.
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