workshopping an idea failed paradigm shifts roughly goes like this 1. Discipline has a mostly functional paradigm 2. Researchers who've mastered the paradigm pick at failure cases 3. New students follow them in Revolutionary phase but . . .
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4. Revolution doesn't cohere into a new paradigm to replace the old one 5. Generation of researchers who failed to build a new system don't pass the old one on and the useful normal science is lost.
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Mildly concerned about this happening in economics and this was my motivating example
but it's by no means limited
case study: poetry
a few capable avante garde poets abandon meter and rhyme, produce rebellious good work
soon: "what's a dactyl"
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Credit where due:
@Meaningness basically introduced this idea but I think it's more general than the specific case he identifies.pic.twitter.com/kLe8LTodHN
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yeah pretty much macro still just seems lost but micro paradigm(s) seem fairly well founded for the most part our empirical tools and data are just not up to the task we're demanding, mix in publication bias and political bias and woooooooosh
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