Re:Troubling trends in machine learning scholarship (2018)
by BeetleB on Monday December 02, 2019 @12:23AM
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> I'm not so sure that it is hustling, though I'm sure that exists. I'm a firm believer of Hanlon's Razor [0], and we shouldn't rush to attribute malice.
From what I saw in academia, it definitely was partial hustling. The thing is that it became so prevalent in some disciplines that the new generation now views this as "research" and not hustling.
Academics are no less immune to social proof. For them, academics is what academics do. And if most of them do this, then this is academics. The notion that it is problematic is waved away.
From what I saw in academia, it definitely was partial hustling. The thing is that it became so prevalent in some disciplines that the new generation now views this as "research" and not hustling.
Academics are no less immune to social proof. For them, academics is what academics do. And if most of them do this, then this is academics. The notion that it is problematic is waved away.