24: Incentive structures in science
Science funding has a series of built in incentive structures, but what sort of science does this produce?
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- Feedback from our 'Public health and Pokemon' episode (#22) \n
- Incentive structures in science \n
- What we should be doing in science compared to what we are doing \n
- Quantity vs. Quality \n
- The analysis of Trump's tweets for negativity vs. positivity \n
- Pre-registration \n
- How much detail do you need to go into when it comes to pre-registering an analysis \n
- APS journal badges - they're working! \n
- Data sharing makes you more careful with your data \n
- Solutions to the incentive problem have to come from the policy level \n
- The grant funding lottery system proposal \n
- The PhD oversupply \n
- Gaming the system \n
- James wants to mandate science communication \n
- Dan wants to include replication studies in PhD programs \n
- Scientist names that suit their research area \n
Links
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- The article on incentive structures \n
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- The Allen brain atlas \n
http://observatory.brain-map.org
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- Analysis of Trump's tweets \n
http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/
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