On: Academics, we need to talk

[barry-cotter]

> That's not true that they come from the brightest people, I'd say that's very much a bias.

[Citation needed]

There are such things as talent, insight and experience but intelligence makes everything easier, from learning new fields and tools to evaluating and formulating new ideas. Ceteris Paribus more intelligence is better.

[dluan → barry-cotter]

That's a bit reductionist on something that is inherently non-reductionist: how do you define a good problem worth solving.

I believe you presented a logical leap between having all the tools one could ever dream of <-> delivering scientific impact.

Here's a citation: "scientific impact is a decelerating function of grant funding size".

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....