Matt_Simpson comments on The Academic Epistemology Cross Section: Who Cares More About Status? - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Matt_Simpson 15 November 2009 07:37PM

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Comment author: Matt_Simpson 16 November 2009 02:47:37AM 2 points [-]

Do you think the effect of the 'other pressures' academics feel is the same for all disciplines? Or are there other factors that increase or decrease that effect?

Comment author: RobinHanson 16 November 2009 03:00:31AM 3 points [-]

It is unlikely to be exactly the same, but it seems hard to measure the differences. Fields in which academics are more often hired not for their prestige but for their directly useful knowledge tend to be less prestigious fields I think, so I'd guess that might be one clue, but a weak one.