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One researcher is trying show whether publicly funded research is actually growing the economy.
Guess what: if you give a team of scientists a lot of money to run a big experiment at a university and then ask them to fill out a form afterward to show whether or not that research created or sustained jobs in the economy, they will say that it did.
That isn’t to say the research didn’t create or sustain jobs. It might have. It probably did. It’s just that when you ask a person you gave money to whether or not they achieved the end the money was given to them to achieve, they are inclined to say that, yes, it did.
