jmmcd comments on Problems with Academia and the Rising Sea - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jmmcd 24 May 2013 12:42:30AM 1 point [-]

Yes, but the next line mentioned PageRank, which is designed to deal with those types of issues. Lots of inward links doesn't mean much unless the people (or papers, or whatever, depending on the semantics of the graph) linking to you are themselves highly ranked.

Comment author: CarlShulman 24 May 2013 02:16:56AM 2 points [-]

Yep, a data-driven process could be great, but if what actually gets through the inertia is the simple version, this is an avenue for backfire.