1/ Lit surveys and discovery exercises serve 2 purposes, not 1: providing idea fuel and containing downside of potential blindside errors
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2/ Conflating the two purposes leads to misery and terrible work because very different subsets of discovery findings drive them.
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3/ For idea fuel, you want to throw to choose from the ends of the distribution: most-cited and least-cited.
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4/ The most cited work gives you foundations to build on. Obscure works give you novel starting points that have chance for high ROI
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@michael_nielsen Yes, I'd say the cross-pollination sub-category is possibly even the majority.
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