What matters is not hard vs soft science, or analytic vs Continental philosophy. It's whether you care enough to figure out what's going on.
It's true most critical theory papers are blather. But also true most science is mindless p-hacking, little better than chance to be right.
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Cargo cult research is how everyone starts. Imitation is the only way, because so much knowledge is tacit; teachers can't spell it out.
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@themattsimpson That’s cool… I gather that interdisciplinary study is generally somewhat easier now than when I was in academia; yayz!
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@themattsimpson Honest answer to “what are you doing on your PhD?” for a while would have been >
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@GrumplessGrinch Yeah, cool! There’s a high cost to crossing discipline boundaries (most of the time you are stupidly wrong) -
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@GrumplessGrinch It’s high risk/high gain, which takes courage (and institutional support helps a lot if you can get it!)
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