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Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Open Thread March 7 - March 13, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 08 March 2016 11:18:14PM 2 points [-]

In other words, I am curious about how much the working conditions, education, etc. of scientists is actually based on pseudoscience or random decisions, and how much is somehow evidence-based.

I'd guess most of it is based on neither, and is just the result of coordination problems (Ctrl-F for "Tsars" in the latter link).