by Brandon » Sat Jan 26, 2013 10:30 am
Kimra:
Huh? This was the first post in this forum all week. Or is this an inside joke I'm not getting?
Billyshears:
Pretty sure it's a metaphor for research or something like that. The guy in the mine is telling the guy up top to come dig in the mine which has already had all the gold mined out, because it's yielded a lot of gold in the past. Similarly, researchers often focus on fields that are already well-developed, because of the success other researchers have had their in the past. Funding, as well, tends to go to research in fields that have borne fruit in the past. I wouldn't say it's political, really, or even that the funding comment is exclusively about government funding.
Kimra:
Huh? This was the first post in this forum all week. Or is this an inside joke I'm not getting?
Billyshears:
Pretty sure it's a metaphor for research or something like that. The guy in the mine is telling the guy up top to come dig in the mine which has already had all the gold mined out, because it's yielded a lot of gold in the past. Similarly, researchers often focus on fields that are already well-developed, because of the success other researchers have had their in the past. Funding, as well, tends to go to research in fields that have borne fruit in the past. I wouldn't say it's political, really, or even that the funding comment is exclusively about government funding.