> I think you should consider listening more to your supervisor. I know nothing about your field, but I've seen a lot of PhDs go off the rails because they chased after something they thought was a great idea only to…
To be clear, I'm not thinking specifically about hyped-up research that doesn't pan out. Low quality research in general is what I'm thinking about. And I see the vast majority of academics as well-intentioned and not…
Your view of the incentives argument is too narrow. In my experience, the people who actively try to game the system are rare. The majority of the problem is people and ideas being filtered out by the system. This…
> I think you should consider listening more to your supervisor. I know nothing about your field, but I've seen a lot of PhDs go off the rails because they chased after something they thought was a great idea only to…
To be clear, I'm not thinking specifically about hyped-up research that doesn't pan out. Low quality research in general is what I'm thinking about. And I see the vast majority of academics as well-intentioned and not…
Your view of the incentives argument is too narrow. In my experience, the people who actively try to game the system are rare. The majority of the problem is people and ideas being filtered out by the system. This…