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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:20:05 EST
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- From: Snyder Lawrence Hugh <larry@AI.MIT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Being famous, etc
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- A quick thought or two:
- I suspect that large labs are indeed more productive, in
- terms of # of papers / year. However, sometimes I suspect that in
- the big 'factories' that the least experienced folks see the most
- and the rawest data, while the lab chief, presumably the person
- most able to draw creative, interesting conclusions from the blips
- and glitches that real science produces, sees only a very digested,
- streamlined version of the data his lab produces. So if you believe
- that lots of really important discoveries are made serendipitously
- by careful observers with lots of experience, then perhaps you'll
- prefer a small lab, where you, as PI, do more science and less
- administration.
- Need I add that lab size is independent of PI FQ (fame quotient).
-
- as always,
- lar@ai.mit.edu
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