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“If you are a student and you want a higher grade, you need to come in and show me that you understand the material at a level that was different than you showed on the exam. Most students don’t come in with this attitude.”
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“What if key elements of science policy are based on patterns of discovery that no longer exist?
That’s the question behind a paper (abstract available here) released Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The paper — by Benjamin Jones, associate professor of management at Northwestern University — argues that science has changed in key ways. Specifically, it argues that the age at which researchers are able to make breakthroughs has advanced, and that scientists are parts of increasingly larger teams, encouraging narrow specialization. Yet, he argues, science policy (or a lot of it) continues to assume the possibility if not desirability of breakthroughs by a lone young investigator.”