Comment Re:It Falls Under Business, but (Score 0) 481
I think you're confusing the channels. The PhDs got paid to do research for problems they proposed to research solutions for or were assigned to. They were very good at writing proposals and very bad at actually doing the work for which they got the proposal money to solve (i.e., most of the money was wasted because they did not actually have the ability to solve the problems). Most of the money granted was for well-defined deliverables that the customer could use. While writing proposals and the occasional paper was part of their responsiblities, they were primarily being paid to identify and solve practical science / engineering problems.
The responsiblities for the game developers were almost identical to the PhDs other than the papers they wrote qualified as technical writing rather than research papers. They also were not expected to be published (although many of them actually were). If anything, the game developers were held to a much higher standard than the PhDs, by both the customers and their managers.
In this particular, you're going to have to take my word for it or simply discount my assertion. Writing a paper detailing out the hypothesis and evidence is beyond the scope of the time I've allotted msyelf to screw around on Slashdot.
The responsiblities for the game developers were almost identical to the PhDs other than the papers they wrote qualified as technical writing rather than research papers. They also were not expected to be published (although many of them actually were). If anything, the game developers were held to a much higher standard than the PhDs, by both the customers and their managers.
In this particular, you're going to have to take my word for it or simply discount my assertion. Writing a paper detailing out the hypothesis and evidence is beyond the scope of the time I've allotted msyelf to screw around on Slashdot.
