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Re:The mathematics of science’s broken reward system by maverick_iceman on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:08AM (#12978640)
Any metric that is used to judge scientific performance will be subject to targeted manipulation and eventually lose its effectiveness.
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Re:The mathematics of science’s broken reward system by nabla9 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:21AM (#12978768)
Some metrics are more resistant to manipulation than others.

Mechanism design (reverse game theory) is subfield of game theory deals with these issues.

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Re:The mathematics of science’s broken reward system by danieltillett on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:04PM (#12980929)
Do you have any good resources on this topic.

Edit. Prof. Google to the rescue [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_design

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Re:The mathematics of science’s broken reward system by nabla9 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:40PM (#12981308)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12981167
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