There can be no solution while too many academic careers depend on publishing papers that show a new effect.https://twitter.com/hcpearson/status/735496845539958784 …
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You cannot standardize and bureaucratize a field that depends on erratic, unstandardizable genius and expect linear growth
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'Numbers of papers' and 'citations' is a bureaucratic metric, manageable and standardized for promotions.
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But advances are made by geniuses who are usually eccentric and don't do bureaucracy well. Grant-whoring is a debasement.
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