Science is about overcoming failures. List: (1) once I got to be professor, my first 23 grant proposals we're rejected. I am very comfortable now. (2) I was mediocre at school (~B) and particularly bad at stats. Much of my lab's work is close to stats now.
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Soviet fighter planes in WWII were mostly plywood, too. E.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-3 … (Probably most pilots preferred US planes...)
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These were canvas and plywood.
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“canvas planes” it is then..
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PO-2 was a mass-produced (20.000 made) all-purpose slow and light plane. Flown by countless pilots, male and female. Helicopter was not yet invented. It is a bit far-fetched to say it was solely due to discrimination that females got to fly them.
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Thanks for explaining your perspective does this actually change the fact they were treated differently and therefore are undeniably the product of survivor bias?
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I don't really think they or anyone serving in Soviet Army in rank below colonel or so at that time was treated as anything but cannon fodder.
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Thank you for you input, Dima. Sexism is now cancelled. Everybody, step down, no more feminism needed!
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war and death cancels everything, even feminism...
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They were so cool and awe inspiring, but next time give them better planes!
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INB4: Next time = WW3 ergo Olivia wants WW3 to happen.
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I had the chance earlier this year to visit the Lusitania Museum in Denmark, they have an exhibition about this, http://skysisters.com/ it was amazing!
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Bit jealous!
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fantastic story. “plywood planes” should become a commonly used phrase for systematic inequality in science
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