Comments on: The “Give Us More Money” Bias http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/03/the_give_us_mor.html Overcoming Bias is economist Robin Hanson’s blog, on honesty, signaling, disagreement, forecasting, and the far future. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:23:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Joseph Hertzlinger http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/03/the_give_us_mor.html#comment-421380 Joseph Hertzlinger Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:57:12 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/03/the-give-us-more-money-bias.html#comment-421380 The fact that the first piece of expert advice is to hire more experts and give them high-status positions has been known for millennia: "Now let Pharaoh take a man discreet and wise and set him over the land of Egypt." --- Genesis 41:33 The fact that the first piece of expert advice
is to hire more experts and give them high-status positions has been known for millennia:

“Now let Pharaoh take a man discreet and wise and set him over the land of Egypt.” — Genesis 41:33

]]> By: Bruce G Charlton http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/03/the_give_us_mor.html#comment-421379 Bruce G Charlton Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:04:35 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/03/the-give-us-more-money-bias.html#comment-421379 Sorry to be somewhat off topic - but maybe this 'lobbying for state funding' aspect of research partly explains the liberal-left preponderance of academics - which (as Engram notes today at Back Talk - http://engram-backtalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/academics-scientists-and-politically.html) infects all academic science that has political ramifications. Sorry to be somewhat off topic – but maybe this ‘lobbying for state funding’ aspect of research partly explains the liberal-left preponderance of academics – which (as Engram notes today at Back Talk – http://engram-backtalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/academics-scientists-and-politically.html) infects all academic science that has political ramifications.

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