tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9487055.post8864970092953142398..comments2024-03-26T05:56:59.938+11:00Comments on THE PSYCHOLOGIST : Should unproductive academics be made redundant?JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9487055.post-43293205077868919512012-04-15T15:55:22.157+10:002012-04-15T15:55:22.157+10:00Sometimes you need quantity to get quality
The mo...Sometimes you need quantity to get quality<br />The most famous piece of Japanese art is "The wave" by Hokusai<br />Hokusai did 19,000 (approx.) paintings all toldJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9487055.post-3023297505546821472012-04-15T12:53:10.487+10:002012-04-15T12:53:10.487+10:00Thanks for the link - I tend to avoid Fairfax to a...Thanks for the link - I tend to avoid Fairfax to avoid indigestion. This stuff is priceless. The use of language betrays the post-modern leftist sense of entitlement. Each sentence seems to contain a keyword which rings alarm bells for this reader. It was no surprise to note the faculty affiliations. Sad to see the current reality at my alma mater where I was an academic, and which was once a University in the true sense.<br /><br />Publish or perish is all the go of course and at least it shows activity, but sadly it fills the academic journals with so much useless crud, which nobody bothers to read. It does not lead to advances in knowledge. The very best ('Ivy League') research universities generally make appointments on the quality of research output.<br /><br />Let me have a little dig at psychologists and related academics. As you indicated publish or perish is no problem for fields like that. Just a questionnaire and a spreadsheet and job done. In much of climate science the mediocre just endlessly reprocess data series produced by others. All you need is a workstation. It takes much longer to actually build experimental gear and collect data in many other fields, especially in (serious) sciences and engineering. Publishing now consists of papers recycling essentially useless variations on what might even be valuable work. The crud collects in the unread journals.<br /><br />Hence I believe quality of research must be paramount. I think it was an 'Ivy League' question for a researchers to give only their best three papers for evaluation purposes. That sure exposes the mediocre with several hundred publications! Think Albert Einstein and his era.<br /><br />-CarlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com