It could be anything. I know a mathematician who took advice from a very emphatic writer about not being perfectionistic about editing. This is not bad advice for commercial writers, though I don’t think it necessarily applies to all of them. The problem is that being extremely picky is part of the mathematician’s process for writing papers. IIRC, the result was two years without him finishing any papers.
Or there’s the story about Erdos, who ran on low doses of amphetamines. A friend of his asked him to go a month without the amphetamine, and he did, but didn’t get any math done during that month.
It’s possible that the net effect of some sort of adviser could be good, whether for a particular scientist or for scientists in general, but it’s not guaranteed.
It could be anything. I know a mathematician who took advice from a very emphatic writer about not being perfectionistic about editing. This is not bad advice for commercial writers, though I don’t think it necessarily applies to all of them. The problem is that being extremely picky is part of the mathematician’s process for writing papers. IIRC, the result was two years without him finishing any papers.
Or there’s the story about Erdos, who ran on low doses of amphetamines. A friend of his asked him to go a month without the amphetamine, and he did, but didn’t get any math done during that month.
It’s possible that the net effect of some sort of adviser could be good, whether for a particular scientist or for scientists in general, but it’s not guaranteed.