Another route is study review (probably not the term, brain still booting) where an unrelated, huge, long-term study comes along with a giant population, huge test datasets, good documentation practices and publicly shared datasets. It has all the information such that some scientist just working from a computer can make connections and infer an unrelated connection. So even though none of the proposed studies would ever get funding or approval, the advancement could still come along.
I am thinking of a few big ones but I can't get my neurons on the names of the studies. You wouldn't believe the number of times in the preceding paragraph I tried to remember the name for something. If you are super interested in what I am talking about poke me in comments and later I will cite the names of studies and the unrelated papers/ideas/advancements that came out of study review.
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Another route is study review (probably not the term, brain still booting) where an unrelated, huge, long-term study comes along with a giant population, huge test datasets, good documentation practices and publicly shared datasets. It has all the information such that some scientist just working from a computer can make connections and infer an unrelated connection. So even though none of the proposed studies would ever get funding or approval, the advancement could still come along.
I am thinking of a few big ones but I can't get my neurons on the names of the studies. You wouldn't believe the number of times in the preceding paragraph I tried to remember the name for something. If you are super interested in what I am talking about poke me in comments and later I will cite the names of studies and the unrelated papers/ideas/advancements that came out of study review.