paper-machine comments on Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Forum - Less Wrong

25 Post author: alyssavance 20 June 2012 06:15PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 20 June 2012 08:06:20PM *  1 point [-]

If it's usually easy to get around that sort of thing, by just publishing in a different journal, why don't more academics do so?

Clearly the grad student (or more likely, their advisor) thought that getting published in journal X was worth enough status to spend over a year working on it. Fake utility functions and all that. Not even academics are perfectly rational.