http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/early-scientist.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 http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/early-scientist.html#comment-405104 Kenny Easwaran Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:42:32 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2008/04/early-scientists-chose-influence-over-credit.html#comment-405104 I think it's also true in low-innovation fiction, as in the famous case of Kaavya Viswanathan's "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got In, and Got a Life" or whatever that case was. I believe the practice of ghost writing (or something much like it) is also popular in long book series in romance, westerns, mystery, and young adult/children's literature. I believe at least some Robert Ludlum novels were written after he died, by other authors, though I can't remember if that's the right name or not. I think it’s also true in low-innovation fiction, as in the famous case of Kaavya Viswanathan’s “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got In, and Got a Life” or whatever that case was. I believe the practice of ghost writing (or something much like it) is also popular in long book series in romance, westerns, mystery, and young adult/children’s literature. I believe at least some Robert Ludlum novels were written after he died, by other authors, though I can’t remember if that’s the right name or not.

]]> http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/early-scientist.html#comment-405103 Peter St. Onge Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:53:41 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2008/04/early-scientists-chose-influence-over-credit.html#comment-405103 sorry, meant low-innovation NON-fiction eg autobiographies which don't use novel literary techniques. sorry, meant low-innovation NON-fiction eg autobiographies which don’t use novel literary techniques.

]]> http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/early-scientist.html#comment-405102 Peter St. Onge Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:50:17 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2008/04/early-scientists-chose-influence-over-credit.html#comment-405102 There seems an ever-present trade-off between bolstering one's authority and claiming credit. Some modern examples would be the practice of less prestigious academics inviting a star to "co-author," or the phenomenon of ghost-writing (seemingly prevalant in low-innovation fiction), or the practice of intellectual activists to create fictitious precedents for their utopian ideals (ie "noble savage"). There seems an ever-present trade-off between bolstering one’s authority and claiming credit. Some modern examples would be the practice of less prestigious academics inviting a star to “co-author,” or the phenomenon of ghost-writing (seemingly prevalant in low-innovation fiction), or the practice of intellectual activists to create fictitious precedents for their utopian ideals (ie “noble savage”).

]]> http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/early-scientist.html#comment-405101 George Weinberg Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:49:12 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2008/04/early-scientists-chose-influence-over-credit.html#comment-405101 "People will treat your ideas with more respect if you tell them Ben Franklin said it first" --Mark Twain “People will treat your ideas with more respect if you tell them Ben Franklin said it first” –Mark Twain

]]> http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/early-scientist.html#comment-405100 mike kenny Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:42:49 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2008/04/early-scientists-chose-influence-over-credit.html#comment-405100 hm, looks like abelard of bath did translations of works that wouldn't have been well known, i don't think, to european audiences. he seemed uniquely situated to pass off his ideas as someone else's. nowadays, maybe the opporunities might come for scientists in claiming that some dead scientist they knew who was influential said this or that privately, when in fact he didn't, and the idea is actually the living scientist's. hm, looks like abelard of bath did translations of works that wouldn’t have been well known, i don’t think, to european audiences. he seemed uniquely situated to pass off his ideas as someone else’s. nowadays, maybe the opporunities might come for scientists in claiming that some dead scientist they knew who was influential said this or that privately, when in fact he didn’t, and the idea is actually the living scientist’s.

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