Author: Omid David
Date: 08:01:07 07/13/02
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On July 13, 2002 at 09:12:18, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: > ==== 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) Unfortunately, you are right. There has been few academic publications dealing with practical problems. Of the PhDs I reviewed in last few years, I just found Heinz discussing serious practical issues. Other PhDs have been a transference of bones as Frank Dobie (1888-1964) puts it: "The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another."
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