That’s the real deal. Anyone below that threshold calling themselves an independent researcher is either talking about something like market research or trend research (which is really environmental intelligence work not R&D in the sense that interests me), deluded, or lying.
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As long as they’re ones nobody else is looking at

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Being first/original on a topic is not actually a primary motivation in research for most researchers in my experience. Interestingness is the primary driver. Nobody picks a problem simply because it’s at the intersection of fundable by a model and unworked-on.
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A lot of the value in these kinds of institutions is the common room, the peer group. That is much harder to maintain and especially to build online
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Not for me. I got very little out of peers. It was pure;y about paid-for time for me.
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