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Andy Matuschak
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This paper explores the incentive structures of academic psychology, suggests that outsiders/amateurs may fill a useful ecological niche for "long, aimless, speculative, and interdisciplinary research on uncommon or taboo subjects."
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"Amateur hour: Improving knowledge diversity in psychological and behavioral science by harnessing contributions from amateurs" citing "amateur" psychology work from @slatestarcodex @alexeyguzey @michael_nielsen @andy_matuschak @robinhanson @KevinSimler sciencedirect.com/science/articl
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Andy Matuschak
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One topic it discusses is the issue of funding; it mentions my crowdfunding approach. Skeptical of how that would hold up for long/aimless projects. eg this year rather than publishing large things I've been slowly unsticking some thorny problems… and $ growth has plateaued. :)
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It proposes an interesting schema for outsider contribution. One thing I often wonder is how much academic psychology is the "right" amount for me to know. I think the right answer is something like: much more than I do, but probably not as much as an experimental psychologist.
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