I had the thought while reading the original post that I recall speaking to at least one researcher who, pre-replication crisis, was like “my work is built on a pretty shaky foundation as is most of the research in this field, but what can you do, this is the way the game is played”. So that suggested to me that plenty of median researchers might have recognized the issue but not been incentivized to change it.
Lab leaders aren’t necessarily in a much better position. If they feel responsibility toward their staff, they might feel even more pressured to keep gaming the metrics so that the lab can keep getting grants and its researchers good CVs.
I agree that lab leaders are not in much better position, I just think that lab leaders causally screen off influence of subordinates, while incentives in the system causally screens off lab leaders.
I had the thought while reading the original post that I recall speaking to at least one researcher who, pre-replication crisis, was like “my work is built on a pretty shaky foundation as is most of the research in this field, but what can you do, this is the way the game is played”. So that suggested to me that plenty of median researchers might have recognized the issue but not been incentivized to change it.
Lab leaders aren’t necessarily in a much better position. If they feel responsibility toward their staff, they might feel even more pressured to keep gaming the metrics so that the lab can keep getting grants and its researchers good CVs.
I agree that lab leaders are not in much better position, I just think that lab leaders causally screen off influence of subordinates, while incentives in the system causally screens off lab leaders.