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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Replying to @KordingLab
Normalizing failure is crucial to reducing anxiety/depression in academia. It's also important to point out that survivors (senior faculty) have way more visibility than those that didn't make it through and their failures can only teach so muchpic.twitter.com/7fslClMzqQ
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Replying to @sterrett_sc @KordingLab
Survivorship bias - certainly true. Do senior faculty also get a survivor syndrome (also known to occur in the workplace). Is that whats triggered this post and similar ones of others..? Guilt + „why me?” ?
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Replying to @paweljmatusz @sterrett_sc
Not sure. I don't think I am captured well by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_guilt … . I think it is rather an acknowledgement that I am not drawn randomly out of a population and that my observations may not generalize. I do not want people to take away that it's all about persistence.
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Replying to @KordingLab @sterrett_sc
was thinking about somthng more along these lines - https://www.bjceap.com/Blog/ArtMID/448/ArticleID/75/Workplace-Survivor-Syndrome …. Defo persistence (and hard work that comes with & sacrifices) plays a role, as does luck. But indeed other factors play a role, too; for 1 i’ve found all my advisors insightful/„smart”, 1 way or another
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it seems to me that luck and the ability to persist often interact w/ structural inequality. very ripe for attribution errors. in both success and failure, how much is really due to the individual? the system? power structures/ inequality? (w/ a role for stochasticity of course)
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Very true, I was hinting at that..
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Since we're at the intersection of aeroplanes survival & discrimination, I'm droping this. They were given shitty plywood planes because they were "a bunch of girlies" but they managed anyway. That's amazing but also indicative of what survivor bias does.https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/night-witches-the-female-fighter-pilots-of-world-war-ii/277779/ …
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Replying to @o_guest @paweljmatusz and
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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