Word for writing, PowerPoint for presentations and posters, excel/spss for stats, matlab/R/python for coding and Dropbox for storage. Most PhDs I know use those every week —> day
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Command line doesn't directly imply it's good but it's nice to hear you were taught CLI. That's rare. It sadly doesn't change the fact you should move to something open in an ideal world.
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Agree fully about the ideal world. Not much time or money is set aside for ECRs to learn to do the things they already do, but better/more open/etc. How many people teach themselves Python/R during work hours vs after 6pm?
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I am not sure I agree with this as a true generalization across the board, but some people you are right. In the US, for example, you do get this training through out your graduate studies. And even in the UK, a lot of my peers and myself — we invest a LOT of time in expanding
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our skillset. A lot. We have little time but we do invest it wisely.
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I think this is a poor argument - a part of being a good researcher is to harvest the essential research skills. Knowing how to analyze data is a part of that.
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An ANOVA only demands that you know basic arithmetic. Add some matrix algebra and you have multivariate techniques. If you’re really motivated, you could do an EFA in Excel. I don’t think any particular tool makes you better at this.
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It doesn't make you better but it can make the project better, reusable, open science/source, etc.
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Fair point.
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Agree. It’s the same argument I make about Matlab and why I tell myself I never invested time into learning it (it’s definitely not my laziness).
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