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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by danieltillett on Friday November 02, 2018 @10:15PM (#18368270)
The pressure doesn't stop at any stage in your scientific career. It is bad at the PhD stage (get results or no PhD), at the postdoc stage (get results or no tenure track position), at the tenure track stage (get results or no tenure), tenured (get results or no grants).

About the only point you can actually slow down enough to care about quality is at the emeritus stage, but even then if you don't produce your lab will be moved into a broom cupboard.

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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by Fomite on Saturday November 03, 2018 @03:03AM (#18369098)
One of the things I make my students do is to try and design projects so that a myriad of answers are all potentially interesting, such that the likelihood of getting a result is high, but the particulars of the research are responsible for what that result is.
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Re:1 in 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked to Commit Scient... by danieltillett on Saturday November 03, 2018 @05:37AM (#18369400)
Yes I used to do something similar. All my students had two projects - one was high risk, but if it succeeded glory, the other boring, but no matter the result, publishable.
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