Why do scientists shy away from the word “problem”? Why a challenge or at best open question
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Ah! I would never have thought about it like this! Thanks :) I was told to use positive language so it’s “challenge”
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Long ago, my PI in York, instructing me on the English ways, told me that English people considered it impolite to point out a problem. It was sort of making it real and therefore the person doing so was regarded as being difficult. Perhaps this may help.

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To be honest with you, this kind of analysis is probably true even though it sounds so ridiculous that people can be this way.
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I suspect it is, not sure tho. Perhaps if we had been educated in the same way we wouldn't see it as ridiculous, dunno. For me it is utterly silly
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I dunno, Esther, I think we might be different to average. I was educated to be Orthodox Christian and a Greek supremacist. Obviously I rejected that.

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Well, it is not like I am an homophobic pious Catholic, is it?


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Exactly! More credit to us!

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Salud!
But you and I are exceptional (ly great) ! 

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