What percentage of academic labs do valuable stuff?
>>16827621>valuableAny lab bringing in overhead through grant monies.
>What percentage of academic labs do valuable stuff?Most of them.>What percentage of academic labs do work that lay persons will understand and appreciate?Few of them.A big part of why it's becoming more and more difficult for researchers to find support in the general public is that we've reached a point where it's no longer a given that people will have the entry level of understanding needed to recognize what research is trying to accomplish or what its applications might be.
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>>168276210%. Valueable stuff are done only in engineering divisions
Define valuable
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>>16827720Sounds like a grifter making excuses for why they can't get funding for their teleportation anti-gravity vortex.
>>16827621Approximately the number of whites males in that pic, divided by the total number of people in the photo, multiplied by 100.
Politics feels like this same realm..
>>168276211%
>>16827621Whatever percentage do glownigger things for the Department of Energy
>>16828017If this number is true it's from vanity publishing of nothingburgers in Iran, Egypt, CIS, and India >>16828033Your average joe off the street can't comprehend quantum mechanics, frequency-domain signals, and cryptography. The people who specialize in one of them for long enough to moke a contribution to the field generally can't do the same in the other two. Specialists in all three are required to make the device you're posting from.Despite the meme ideal of ensuring laypeople understanding your science with a thirty-second elevator pitch, that simply is not the frontier of economically and societally useful research.
>>16827621Grim.
>>16830764Yep. Some female phds/academics are all right, but as the ratio approaches 50% you can be confident that the group sucks absolute balls.
>>16827621If you’re looking for buried treasure, and you dig in a spot to find nothing, was the digging valuable? Any one project is unlikely to find anything valuable, or even lead to value eventually, but you can only find value by looking.
