> What does limit creativity is having science a full-time job, AS THIS DOES COME OUT WITH SOME EXPECTATION OF RESULTS.
You're getting to my point. The thing about any research is that it is a lot of failure before success. Which makes progress hard to impossible to measure essentially until success is made.
Butt eh expectation of results is my problem. The tyranny of metrics. The fuzzier a goal is, the fuzzier the metric's guidance is. All metrics are guides btw. An academic's quality is extremely difficult to measure and citation, h-index, i10, and others do a shit job. The only way is to be subjective, because honestly only a researcher's peers know if they are doing good work or not, and that's even unreliable. I mean the job is literally to explore unknown areas. I'm not sure why anyone expects constant and big results. If you're constantly finding things you either hit a gold mine or you are staying pretty local and not doing much exploring.
You're getting to my point. The thing about any research is that it is a lot of failure before success. Which makes progress hard to impossible to measure essentially until success is made.
Butt eh expectation of results is my problem. The tyranny of metrics. The fuzzier a goal is, the fuzzier the metric's guidance is. All metrics are guides btw. An academic's quality is extremely difficult to measure and citation, h-index, i10, and others do a shit job. The only way is to be subjective, because honestly only a researcher's peers know if they are doing good work or not, and that's even unreliable. I mean the job is literally to explore unknown areas. I'm not sure why anyone expects constant and big results. If you're constantly finding things you either hit a gold mine or you are staying pretty local and not doing much exploring.