A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more

Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by eru on Saturday May 22, 2021 @01:16AM (#27243722)

Well, perhaps we can learn from how the startup ecosystem works?

For commercial ventures, you also have the same issue of incremental progress vs big breakthroughs that don't look like much until they are ready.

As far as I can tell, in the startup ecosystem the whole thing works by different investors (various angels and VCs and public markets etc), all having their own process to (attempt to) solve this tension.

There's beauty in competition. And no taxpayer money is wasted here. (Yes, there are government grants for startups in many parts of the world, but that's a different issue from angels evaluating would-be companies.)

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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by Nasrudith on Saturday May 22, 2021 @03:33AM (#27244390)

Start ups are at an entirely different phase that have something research does not - feedback via market success. The USSR already demonstrated what happens when you try to run a process dependent upon price signals with their dead end economic theory attempts to calculate a global fair price.

You get what you measure for applies here. Now if we had some Objective Useful Research Quality Score t could replace the price signals. But then we wouldn't have the problem in the first place, just promote based on OURQS.

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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by eru on Saturday May 22, 2021 @11:59AM (#27247740)

Let people promote with their own money based on what subjective useful researche quality score they feel like.

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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by Haga on Saturday May 22, 2021 @02:12AM (#27243997)

Startups have misaligned incentives in a monopoly ruled world? Build a thousand messenger variations to get acquired by Facebook, comes to mind. So economic thinking might be harmful here?

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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by mixmastamyk on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @05:37PM (#27361683)

Your comments are mostly dead. I didn't see anything wrong with them in a cursory glance.

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Re:A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to... by eru on Saturday May 22, 2021 @11:59AM (#27247747)

Why? If that's what society values, that's what society gets. Who are we to judge?

A 0.1% chance to build an app that's gonna be useful to hundreds of millions of people is better than what most career scientists manage.

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