Comments on: Mapping Academia http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/04/mapping_academi.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: Overcoming Bias : Mapping Academia http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/04/mapping_academi.html#comment-461996 Overcoming Bias : Mapping Academia Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:01:34 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/04/mapping-academia.html#comment-461996 [...] months ago I posted on an interesting “map of science”, and digging deeper now I find that in ‘09 the [...] [...] months ago I posted on an interesting “map of science”, and digging deeper now I find that in ‘09 the [...]

]]> By: Amara http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/04/mapping_academi.html#comment-420557 Amara Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:41:39 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/04/mapping-academia.html#comment-420557 Hi Robin, If you are interested to discuss a related topic in another forum, Sabine has taken <a href="http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2007/04/could-gambling-save-science.html" rel="nofollow">an interest</a> in your "Could Gambling Save Science" paper. Hi Robin, If you are interested to discuss a related topic in another forum, Sabine has taken an interest in your “Could Gambling Save Science” paper.

]]> By: Barkley Rosser http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/04/mapping_academi.html#comment-420556 Barkley Rosser Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:39:22 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/04/mapping-academia.html#comment-420556 Well, the links to physics in recent years have picked up because of the surge of econophysics, which appears mostly in physics journals such as Physica A and Physical Review Letters E and the European Physical Journal B, not to mention Nature, although as they are actually on economics topics, it is not clear where they would fit in this space. The links to medicine are obviously coming through health economics, a big field. There is lit on evolutionary economics and ecological economics that might link to biology and earth science, but that does not seem to be a big link in this picture. Well, the links to physics in recent years have picked up because of the surge of econophysics, which appears mostly in physics journals such as Physica A and Physical Review Letters E and the European Physical Journal B, not to mention Nature, although as they are actually on economics topics, it is not clear where they would fit in this space.

The links to medicine are obviously coming through health economics, a big field. There is lit on evolutionary economics and ecological economics that might link to biology and earth science, but that does not seem to be a big link in this picture.

]]> By: Robin Hanson http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/04/mapping_academi.html#comment-420555 Robin Hanson Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:04:09 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/04/mapping-academia.html#comment-420555 Sean, the sort of big concept biology I like tends to be located over near the areas I like, which is another reason the map makes sense. Sean, the sort of big concept biology I like tends to be located over near the areas I like, which is another reason the map makes sense.

]]> By: Sean http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/04/mapping_academi.html#comment-420554 Sean Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:55:22 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/04/mapping-academia.html#comment-420554 Dude, you find biology to be boring?? Dude, you find biology to be boring??

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