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01/24/2014

Hurdles to productivity

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William Shockley on what makes a person who publishes a lot of papers (and the superstar researcher system) | Dynamic Ecology

Another conclusion is that if you are really bad at just one factor (pi close to zero for just one i), it sinks your overall productivity. This is innate in the multiplicative model (it is analogous to the ecological concept of bet hedging*). Being moderately good at everything is better than great at some and terrible at others (the oft heard “I’m terrible at writing but really good at coming up with ideas” doesn’t cut it but nor does the opposite).

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