Maybe LW’s content would be in mainstream academia if all the grad students on LW didn’t drop out of grad school to “overcome the sunk cost fallacy” :P
(I worry about the people who decide they’re really interested in rationality self-selecting themselves out of one of society’s most powerful institutions.)
Maybe LW’s content would be in mainstream academia if all the grad students on LW didn’t drop out of grad school to “overcome the sunk cost fallacy” :P
(I worry about the people who decide they’re really interested in rationality self-selecting themselves out of one of society’s most powerful institutions.)
Do grad students on LessWrong drop out at higher rates that average?
Edit: PhD completion rates are low to begin with, around 50%.
This should be interesting to look at
In the process of pushing my first first-author publication out. I can understand the low fraction.