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by adminprof 4y ago
I think you're missing two fatal problems in this "publish all raw data and code" mindset. I don't think the desire of commercialization is high on the list of fatal problems preventing people from publishing data+softwa
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The 20-Somethings Who Help the 70-Somethings Run Washington(nytimes.com)
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by adminprof 4y ago
It seems like it's just that the goals are different. Computer science researchers could also make the opposite case, "The underwhelming impact of software development on producing state-of-the-art computer science discoveries.&qu
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by adminprof 4y ago
I think your comment is pretty spot on. Just three things I'd add to, are that 1) the advisor is not intentionally downgrading your letter to "just good", but it's that they're obligated to write a better than &quot
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by adminprof 5y ago
Students are users of a class, as much as a dentist is a user of a dental software application. Neither were involved in the making of the class or software. Both were delivered the experience as designed by the course staff (instructor and
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by adminprof 5y ago
I'd like to see in a forum for dentists a thread where they offer clever suggestions for how to change software development. Clearly, all these dentists have used plenty of software before. They would have seemingly great ideas like &q
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by adminprof 5y ago
Simply, because using absolute points would lead to debate over every single decimal of a point. A student with 89.95% would be determined to fight to get 90.05% and then continue to fight to get 90.15% so it only makes the problem worse.
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by adminprof 5y ago
This doesn't work when I've tried it. How many students or times have you implemented this policy? First, it doesn't make sense when the regrade is most objective (like points were calculated wrong, or the grader didn't
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by adminprof 5y ago
> Please don't use such circular logic. We're debating whether the research properly qualifies as human subject research; we're not debating about what the IRB actually decided on that question, because they may have gotte
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by adminprof 5y ago
Not at all, 1) this is clearly not an exempt study, which is a category of its own that the IRB reviews and makes a judgment on. The authors would immediately have been able to point out the protocol number of the exempt study if it were ex
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by adminprof 5y ago
He seems to have good intentions, but does not seem to have knowledge of IRB which may make this situation worse. Specifically, he confuses "does not constitute human subjects research" with "exemption" which is a pretty
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by adminprof 5y ago
This is actually the most technically correct answer on this page. Everyone is going by their own opinions about definitions of what constitutes human subjects research, rather than starting from the primary sources. IRB guidelines are dict
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by adminprof 5y ago
Sure, as someone who has also been on both sides, that's not what I was describing at all though. None of the examples I gave are handled by an editor, except maybe "managing issues dealing with misconduct" depending on the s
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by adminprof 5y ago
So I think your assumption that academic publishing is "a website hosting up PDFs" is the source of confusion for "what justifies this much money." Just like AirBnB isn't just a website hosting JPEGs, while being wo
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by adminprof 5y ago
This comes up every time there's an article about academic publishing. Yes peer reviewers do the reviewing, but it's the long-term infrastructure and coordination that the journal provides. AirBnB's content is generated by us
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by adminprof 6y ago
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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by adminprof 6y ago
Agree with all your points. The author has been in academia all his life so after 20 years or so, I can see how he can feel frustrated by it. I think the general summary of what you're pointing out is that in industry it's easy to
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by adminprof 6y ago
Do these status dashboards have any more credibility left? Always showing green when services are down.
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by adminprof 6y ago
I think I see the confusion between us. You don't see the difference between selling data to a company, and selling ad space where the advertiser can choose for what demographics it shows up for. Let me try to make it more clear. Do yo
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by adminprof 6y ago
They actually don't, unless you define selling as they allow advertisers to select what demographics/attributes their ads target. But the actual data stays on the Facebook servers. If you're referring to the apps having acces
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by adminprof 6y ago
Yet everyone is freaking out and moralizing about nonfinancial data voluntarily given to Facebook. If only the credit bureaus kept our financial and identity data as Facebook kept your list of favorite movies and your selfies.
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by adminprof 6y ago
You can't think of any reason? What about retaliation for being the less enthusiastic reviewer? What about the opposite, that you become known for being an easy reviewer who missed some obvious flaws?
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by adminprof 6y ago
Please do. Would love to hear success stories for data security.
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by adminprof 6y ago
Sure I guess I didn't make that very clear. Just going down the line: 1) stop releasing before the bugs are fixed. Software and games are rushed out. Companies need to take their time to fix the bugs so the users don't have to enc
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by adminprof 6y ago
It'd be a process: participant in a community in a subfield, listen to ideas that have been tried and outcomes, come up with an idea using those lessons learned and success metrics, build consensus around a new idea, test in a single-i
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by adminprof 6y ago
Yeah I have no idea how it got to -2, but maybe it was my tone. I was even trying to not call out any specific post or debate any single issue. The thing about academia is it's full of people who love talking about ways to make it bett
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by adminprof 6y ago
This entire thread is really frustrating for me to read. A lot of these ideas are one-liners from people who have had very little experience with different parts of academia, except maybe being a student. Every single idea here are debated
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by adminprof 6y ago
You make the assumption here that this hack halted all research. It's unlikely to have even affected 10% of ongoing research. Plenty of things stored on cloud storage, in email, in personal computers, on computers not locked out, etc.
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by adminprof 6y ago
I think we just keep going back to the same issue -- people agree that administration is too big. But if you break it down to actual positions or administrative units, it's not clear there is any agreement. There is no such thing as &q
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by adminprof 6y ago
I don't see what assurances you have of this guarantee you give. As so far it seems like when funding is cut, faculty (teaching and research) and academic departments are cut and financial aid is reduced, rather than major cuts in admi

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