Agree with #2. But people please quit reinforcing inaccurate stereotypes. There is **zero** evidence that there’s more “worthless drivel” in gender studies than anywhere else.https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1052766924621279232 …
How would we know how much a paper about dog rape ultimately pays off? Citation count? Some other objective measure of value?
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And, if hoaxing across fields is the way to assess the relative fractions of drivel, but risk aversion (however payoff is measured...?) results in resilience to drivel, then we must then assume a loss function for drivel... :-)
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Sure. But there’s probably also a big reward for publishing crazy stuff that *isn’t* drivel. That is, I presume, why newer edgier fields still establishing their legitimacy are publishing it.
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The difficulty is determining ex ante whether a paper is drivel or isn’t.
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I think it's very difficult ex post!
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