Kris Willis
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Systems biologist, data scientist, policy wonk, runner. Former NIH-funded investigator, former NIH program official. Founder, Woodley Park Institute. Writing about understanding and accelerating scientific progress at https://theprogressbarwpi.org
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Metascience is like economics. It looks at measures, indicators, and metrics. What people do with that info can be more or less hypothesis-driven, but it can't get away from being a study of measures.
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A friend of mine, she was hired at one point by NASA to manage a group of literal rocket scientists because they kept getting into useless arguments and nothing was getting done.
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It’s the great pumpkin beer at Cypress & Grove in my special award mug..
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This bit is telling: “there is no widely used, widely accepted, rigorous means of measuring the quality of scientific output” — they mean: no measure outside of the judgement of experts, potentially over time, and with additional scrutiny. They want a mechanical measure, not a human one.
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I did laugh a little at this part. Perhaps some of the EDU or SBE folks could have helped out with survey design.
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