my recent experience with volume-focused, borderline cargo-cult academia has been really dispiriting
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I'm currently halfway through filling out a table describing in horrifying detail a regression that has no practical implications
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why do we need non-bootstraped confidence bounds on irrelevant interactions on a robustness check? I dunno that's what scientists do right
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p sure this paper exists to justify an ongoing grant guess it's good to document that work was done, but no reason to publish these results
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I think what's especially disconcerting is that this is happening in a field most people wouldn't immediately identify as a sick discipline.
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It's not obviously politicized and its phenomena have large and direct consequences for concrete human welfare. EA would love it in theory.
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And the PI is very smart and capable. But: the incentive structure is such that somehow I'm churning out huge tables no one will *ever* read
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This isn't an isolated problem. I'm also remembering my undergraduate work in a neuroscience lab studying auditory learning in songbirds.
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The PI there was *incredible* but she spent most of her time writing bullshit grants justifying her work w/ handwaving about songbird . . .
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. . . learning as a good model for humans. [narrator] analogues of zebra finch auditory learning structures are not present in human brains
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Last I heard she quit and became the Chief Science Officer of a startup somewhere. This seems like a vastly better use of her talents tbqh.
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Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, there's lately a lot of (justified, imo) criticism of humanities and their ideology-driven hollowing
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To say nothing of replication crises in the social sciences, to varying degrees. But even the natural sciences, even in application-heavy...
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