For what it’s worth, one of the first things my advisor taught me was how to recognize confirmation and publishing bias in the numerical sciences. He’s explained more than once that some subfields exist only because solving certain problems in the “easier” case was intractable, and so people just gave up on them.
My impression(as just finishing up undergrad) is that most of this stuff is floating around the science sphere but that any given scientist is unlikely to receive serious exposure to more than a small portion of it.
For what it’s worth, one of the first things my advisor taught me was how to recognize confirmation and publishing bias in the numerical sciences. He’s explained more than once that some subfields exist only because solving certain problems in the “easier” case was intractable, and so people just gave up on them.
Maybe I’m just lucky to have such an advisor?
My impression(as just finishing up undergrad) is that most of this stuff is floating around the science sphere but that any given scientist is unlikely to receive serious exposure to more than a small portion of it.