n4r9 comments on Academic Cliques - Less Wrong

21 Post author: ChrisHallquist 08 November 2013 04:27AM

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Comment author: n4r9 22 November 2013 11:30:35AM *  2 points [-]

I am reminded of a series of documents uploaded to the arxiv earlier this year, each one reporting the results of a survey taken at a distinct conference, and supposedly revealing a "snapshot" of the participants' atitudes towards foundational issues (such as interpretations). Although the first document seems to be making some fairly strong claims about academic consensus, the following two are a little more conservative. The final one says something very similar to the original post here; their results suggest that,

'there exist, within the broad field of "quantum foundations", sub-communities with quite different views, and that (relatedly) there is probably even significantly more controversy about several fundamental issues than the already-significant amount revealed in the earlier poll.'

http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1069

http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2719

http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4646