03-15-2015, 08:24 PM
"So much info has been passed,"
I think that's the most remarkable thing about this thread and RAT, it's been research in real time with no-one being precious and hording material for research points through a traditional paper, probably because no academic that deals in that currency has joined in. It'll be interesting to see if any of these RAT original ideas ever surface in mainstream academia, fortuantely they are RAT time stamped so attributable and demonstrably in the public domain. The thread is an active research tool and a way of getting attributable authorship without going through the glacial timeline of peer review. Maybe this is a future model for crowd sourced research well away from the politics, egos and REF (shudder) of academia.
I think that's the most remarkable thing about this thread and RAT, it's been research in real time with no-one being precious and hording material for research points through a traditional paper, probably because no academic that deals in that currency has joined in. It'll be interesting to see if any of these RAT original ideas ever surface in mainstream academia, fortuantely they are RAT time stamped so attributable and demonstrably in the public domain. The thread is an active research tool and a way of getting attributable authorship without going through the glacial timeline of peer review. Maybe this is a future model for crowd sourced research well away from the politics, egos and REF (shudder) of academia.