Matt Teichman

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Elucidations · Episode 151: Witold Więcek discusses statistics and academic research · 3 May 2025 podcast

Can every single person in a graduate student cohort be revolutionizing everything?

I mean it seems to me no.

But there was this feeling that like, well, we have to get the best for every position and we have to put out the best for our latest journal issue.

And the best equals radical breakthrough.

Uh because those are the things that we've enjoyed in the past.

Um is there what like what's the role of the breakthrough versus the like you know, interesting paper that builds on some previous stuff and might be useful later and you know with more modest pretensions?

Um maybe to spell that out for people who haven't heard of Frederick Taylor, uh Taylorist uh is a word for the kind of thing that happened in the early twentieth century where a lot of individual fabrication processes were mechanized and and the assembly line was invented uh so that things could get mass produced in factories.

So I I s is that right, what you're alluding to here is that you know, academic research is uh more like it's like coming out of a factory now.

So you think maybe that there's a parallel between this phenomenon that we're on about now, namely that new researchers feel pressure to be transforming everything with every single paper they publish, and kind of the issue we started with, which is that

People reporting on current science often feel pressure to exaggerate the level of confidence we should place in the results.

Does that come from the same place?

Yeah,

That's right.

I j I the first thing I thought was like skydiving.

Like you want to like not know if you're gonna live for sure and like and have an adventure.

Right?

It's this impulse to adventure.

Right.

I could know that I'm gonna hold on to my money, but no, it's more fun to not know if I'm gonna hold on to my money.

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