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Re:Bias Against Novelty in Science by jonlucc on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @06:31PM (#11866211)
Is it not that way in other sciences? It's funny that I just assumed all sciences did the same thing. In fact, my wife works in a museum, and I was stunned to find out that they write grants for work that isn't even started yet.
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Re:Bias Against Novelty in Science by arcanus on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @06:43PM (#11866274)
> Is it not that way in other sciences?

I can speak to the fact that this is absolutely the case in the physical sciences.

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Re:Bias Against Novelty in Science by throwawaysocks on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @06:51PM (#11866324)
CS is somewhere in the middle of those two extremes. You write grants for things you haven't done yet but also you typically have some initial work (maybe a minor publication, maybe not) to prove the direction is promising enough to fund.
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