[Skill profile] “Research skills” by Benjamin Hilton

Learn how to do research, and how you can use research skills to do good. Narrated by AI. ---Outline:(01:21) Key facts on fit(01:43) Why are research skills valuable?(02:42) Research seems to have been extremely high-impact historically(04:30) There are good theoretical reasons to think that research will be high-impact(05:31) Research skills seem extremely useful to the problems we think are most pressing(07:17) If you're a good fit, you can have much more impact than the average(07:43) Depending on which subject you focus on, you may have good backup options(09:03) What does building research skills typically involve?(09:20) Academic research(11:05) Practical but big picture research(13:02) Applied research(14:32) Stages of progression through building and using research skills(17:07) Personal fit is perhaps more important for research than other skills(18:02) How much do researchers differ in productivity?(21:04) Can you predict these differences in advance?(22:03) What does this mean for building research skills?(23:03) How to evaluate your fit(23:07) How to predict your fit in advance(25:43) How to tell if you're on track(27:25) Within academic research(28:00) Within independent research(28:20) Within research in industry or policy(28:32) How to get started building research skills(31:59) Choosing a research field(36:10) Once you have these skills, how can you best apply them to have an impact?(36:49) Which research topics are the highest-impact?(37:37) Using the problem framework(39:19) Rules of thumb for finding unfairly neglected questions(42:29) Find jobs that use a research skills(42:45) Career paths we've reviewed that use these skills(43:56) Learn more about research(44:31) Explore other useful skills The original text contained 9 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: September 18th, 2023 Last updated: December 14th, 2023 Source: https://80000hours.org/skills/research --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.