Significantly more, maybe 20. To do a proper estimate I’d need to know which field we’re considering, what the base rates are, etc. The thing I should have said was that I expect it makes it ~10x less likely that you become a professor; that seems more robust to the choice of field and isn’t conditional on base rates that I don’t know.
The Internet suggests a base rate of 3-5%, which means without intervention 3-5 of them would become professors; if that’s true I would say that with intervention an expected 0.4 of them would become professors.
How do you reconcile this with the immediately prior sentence?
I didn’t mean that it was literally impossible for a person who doesn’t follow the incentives to get into academia, I meant that it was much less likely. I do in fact know people in academia who I think are reasonably good at not following bad incentives.
Significantly more, maybe 20. To do a proper estimate I’d need to know which field we’re considering, what the base rates are, etc. The thing I should have said was that I expect it makes it ~10x less likely that you become a professor; that seems more robust to the choice of field and isn’t conditional on base rates that I don’t know.
The Internet suggests a base rate of 3-5%, which means without intervention 3-5 of them would become professors; if that’s true I would say that with intervention an expected 0.4 of them would become professors.
I didn’t mean that it was literally impossible for a person who doesn’t follow the incentives to get into academia, I meant that it was much less likely. I do in fact know people in academia who I think are reasonably good at not following bad incentives.