Re:We're Incentivizing Bad Science
by knzhou on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:03PM
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As does hiring when a Googler goes to some other company. Nobody is going to see their commits. They have to go on their word, their technical skills, and their references.
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The fact that there are other instances when people make subjective decisions is not quite relevant in this instance.
We are talking about the case when authorship on a scientific publication is insufficient evidence that someone had any contribution whatsoever to the paper. So that one needs a recommendation letter, in addition to the authorsip, where the recommendation letter would presumably state, this individual did actually do some work and is not just cruising.