You mention that running higher cost 'high-throughput' experiments leads to cheaper research in the end, since the data generated is of higher quality as a function of it's total cost, but assuming relatively fixed budgets for social science research, isn't this advocating even higher concentration of the issues around job access and the 'status effect' already present in social science? I'm not personally disagreeing on the value of 'high-throughput' studies, I just wonder as an aspiring graduate student, in a room full of aspiring graduate students, if what is gained is worth the cost.
You mention that running higher cost 'high-throughput' experiments leads to cheaper research in the end, since the data generated is of higher quality as a function of it's total cost, but assuming relatively fixed budgets for social science research, isn't this advocating even higher concentration of the issues around job access and the 'status effect' already present in social science? I'm not personally disagreeing on the value of 'high-throughput' studies, I just wonder as an aspiring graduate student, in a room full of aspiring graduate students, if what is gained is worth the cost.