Which problems make good research problems? http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/02/which-problems-make-good-research.html?spref=tw …
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You are right, of course, and I am aware of your very good posts about the risks of confusing the two; one hopes that the two are at least somewhat related
One can, of course, try to evaluate based on the value of the understanding you hope a project will produce, rather than which journal would publish it in. That's also tricky - it's hard to make such predictions. But better than "Will this go in Nature / PRL / etc?", IMO.
