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Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals (www.nature.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I kind of suspect things were always too big and complex for one person to address but the rampant individualism of our society obscures that history.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Possibly, but when scientific knowledge and problems were smaller, one person could actually make a mark alone IMO. And if they happened upon a new discovery or insight then they’d appear to be geniuses, all alone.

At some point, when the work to make a discovery requires more than one person and the amount of theory involved in understanding its significance is too much for one person to be authoritative on all of it, then it’s a team sport.