In a speech in 2019, Duncan Watts discussed his regrets over the course of what is by any accounts an impressive career for a social scientist: "For 20 years I thought my job was as a basic scientist. Publish papers and throw them over the wall for someone else to apply. I now realise that there's no one on the other side of the wall. Just a huge pile of papers that we've all thrown over."
Meta-Science is Political Methodology
Meta-Science is Political Methodology
Meta-Science is Political Methodology
In a speech in 2019, Duncan Watts discussed his regrets over the course of what is by any accounts an impressive career for a social scientist: "For 20 years I thought my job was as a basic scientist. Publish papers and throw them over the wall for someone else to apply. I now realise that there's no one on the other side of the wall. Just a huge pile of papers that we've all thrown over."