Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 06:12:18 07/13/02
==== Research on academic research ====
== "PhD thesis"; 2002 ==
Georg v. Zimmermann
I.1.a. Abstract
Everything you do, I can do it meta [1]. Over the last few decades a lot has
been published in game tree reasearch [2]. Most of it is either wrong or stating
the obvious [3]. The motivation is clear: its nice to become an "accepted
speaker" in the science community. What is sad is that this prevents true
progress, because old ideas are "researched" on again and again[4] though
granted it might not be as bad is in other areas[5].
But what really hurts is that people who would deserve recognition, because some
few posts here on CCC show more insight than pages long research papers[6], or
because their results are much superior to what traditional research
accomplished [7] never get that recognition. For example a call to lecture at
university.
I.1.a.aa.(a) Keywords
research; re-research; re-re-research; thesis; dilbert
[...]
[1] as our instructur Dr.Forgo et.al.in "methods of law" put it
[2] i.e. http://ybishop.cjb.net/
[3] a good indication is giving references for the obvious [2] while
questionable statements are not backed by any data. Q.E.D.
[4] a paper has been announced on CCC lately: "research" is conducted on whether
a race car powered by the most modern steam-engine runs faster on 2 or 3 wheels.
Unfortunetely there is no abstract answer since this largely depends on the
properties of the steam-engine, and for jet-engines the answer might be slightly
different. They might even go faster without wheels, imagine that.
[5] http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20020712.html
[6] see the excellent CCC search engine: put Dieter Buerssner in the author
field, or Heiner Marxen, or Robert Hyatt (ok there is your exception) or [...]
[7] SSDF (always use abbreviations the accepted speakers also use whenever
possible in your "scientific" research)
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