Of course. I never do that as editor and I’ve never seen editor do that. But of course we all have limited exposure to the world of peer review. I agree multiple experiments does raise costs by increasing standards for ‘robustness’. Which affects what gets submitted, before editors/reviewers engage

Of course. My only (sarcastic) point was that it’s not a waste of money if you prefer to support the consulting industry as opposed to the research/teaching industry. And admin allegiances are a topic of much debate!

Interesting stuff. I like frank tone to writing. I’m most persuaded by arguments abt samples. Multiple experiments seem useful + I thought best practice for editors was never assign R&Rs conditional on more data collection. Pre-reg always seemed silly to me. Doesn’t hurt but not big deal either way.

Bad thing for who? It’s certainly good for the consulting class. And university admins may be closer to that world than the faculty world.

Best not to think too deeply about this man’s words. A great philosopher he ain’t. But always reliably bizarre and odious.

But also have a much better job market and presumably less anxiety about future career. Maybe someone can find some discontinuities/precise comparisons to sort out the two possibilities!

Data in article from 2006-17, I would suspect different findings from an earlier time period. But maybe not. There was always the argument about the isolation of PhD research being bad for some people’s mental health.

Now I’ll be tentative bc not sure getting a PhD is intrinsically bad for you! Surely depends on the circumstances and the individual situation..

Don’t worry, we have plenty of that same logic in the US: highlighting the exceptions who made it through horrible circumstances to justify not changing overall societal systems. I don’t think that logic holds up.

That’s some pretty tentative language. Cutting the number of PhDs has always been the common sense approach, for the past several decades. The only arguments against are based in collective action problems and cynical university interests. Not overall societal welfare.