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Re:Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'? by peteradio on Friday June 17, 2022 @05:23PM (#31784541)
Consider all the buzz word paper milling was to supplant the nepotistic framework from before.
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Re:Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'? by Jensson on Friday June 17, 2022 @08:08PM (#31786080)
But that nepotistic framework produced a lot of good results, so it is unclear if fixing it this way actually improved the output. Meritocracy isn't a good thing if the extra burden of trying to evaluate merit actually worsen the outcome of the process.
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