{"id":1563,"date":"2008-06-10T16:54:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T14:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2008-06-12T11:55:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T09:55:38","slug":"winning-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/06\/winning-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is my impression (and it may be wrong) while reading old Nature volumes that research a few decades ago has been done <em>inter alia<\/em> or <em>inter pares<\/em>. In contrast, competition is now being much more favored<!--more--> by research politicians and scientists as well. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Winning-Ugly-Mentale-Kriegsf%C3%BChrung-Tennis\/dp\/3924245592\">Winning ugly<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; the title of a tennis book &#8211; is getting more and more acceptable, although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2008\/03\/30\/if-pigs-could-fly\/\">empirical research<\/a> clearly shows the disadvantage of this strategy.<br \/>\nLars Bremer has an interview with Matthias Feist the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbremer.de\/artikel\/feist.pdf\">famous programmer<\/a> of chess programmer: &#8220;My hand shivered when Fritz played Dxd8&#8230;&#8221; There is nothing against fair competition and winning any prize may be beautyful. Winning ugly, however, remains ugly, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 08.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is my impression (and it may be wrong) while reading old Nature volumes that research a few decades ago has been done inter alia or inter pares. In contrast, competition is now being much more favored &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 08.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1898,1899],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-empirical-research","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}