Eryk Salvaggio on Nostr: In the survey, these were ideas these PhDs thought were pretty good, but not worth ...

In the survey, these were ideas these PhDs thought were pretty good, but not worth persuing: they themselves evaluated their own contributions as pretty mediocre ideas right from the start. Why? Because generating high-quality research is hard enough, and protecting your most novel ideas in their early stages means a lot. Handing away high quality, distinct, novel research proposals is not really worth it to early career academics. They mostly made them up on the spot, according to the paper.