one cinnamon bun down, kaveh slides the rest of the tray onto the sole corner of the desk that hasn't been entirely covered in paper. he considers this. ]
Oh, I agree. But you also have to see this from the perspective of a research institution. There already is a built-in bias for an information hierarchy, the ones who excel in that environment typically foster a skillset for control, and there is an inherent disparity between research subjects and the researchers involved. Simply put, there isn't just a lack of trust - there isn't an environment that can easily foster that trust.
[ kaveh's fingers skim the edge of the table. they begin to tap. ]
Consider their perspective: they can either bring in a group of disparate individuals from wildly varying worlds and cultures, somehow get them onto the same page, somehow obtain their buy-in, somehow explain and answer all their questions in perpetuity, deal with miscommunication, mismanagement and mistrust, and somehow get them to either generate a new idea or to go along furthering their current idea of how they want things done. Or, they can set up a blind experiment, extract the data and value while operating under their own parameters, testing for the way forward based on hypotheses that is built on hundreds of years of their own research context that they think they understand better than anyone else, with people that they actually do trust. I know what I would choose.
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one cinnamon bun down, kaveh slides the rest of the tray onto the sole corner of the desk that hasn't been entirely covered in paper. he considers this. ]
Oh, I agree. But you also have to see this from the perspective of a research institution. There already is a built-in bias for an information hierarchy, the ones who excel in that environment typically foster a skillset for control, and there is an inherent disparity between research subjects and the researchers involved. Simply put, there isn't just a lack of trust - there isn't an environment that can easily foster that trust.
[ kaveh's fingers skim the edge of the table. they begin to tap. ]
Consider their perspective: they can either bring in a group of disparate individuals from wildly varying worlds and cultures, somehow get them onto the same page, somehow obtain their buy-in, somehow explain and answer all their questions in perpetuity, deal with miscommunication, mismanagement and mistrust, and somehow get them to either generate a new idea or to go along furthering their current idea of how they want things done. Or, they can set up a blind experiment, extract the data and value while operating under their own parameters, testing for the way forward based on hypotheses that is built on hundreds of years of their own research context that they think they understand better than anyone else, with people that they actually do trust. I know what I would choose.