I have been increasingly bothered by the lack of reality in academic research. University-based research can be clever, profound, and deep, but surprisingly often it has little or no impact either upon scientific knowledge or upon society at large.
~ academic research often has little impact on real life
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- > Whether the work has any relevance to broader issues is seldom addressed
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- ~ studies mostly solving problems invented in other studies isolates them even more from real life
- ⇄ academia vs. real world
- ◊ academic research