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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Replying to @paweljmatusz @andrea_e_martin and
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
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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Replying to @o_guest @paweljmatusz and
More known to you Mosquito was plywood too. Although balsa instead of canvas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Mosquito …
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Replying to @dimpase @paweljmatusz and
I'm from Cyprus. We use ex-Soviet machine guns, in fact one per house (per man) is given to us by the government, so I not sure what you think I know or don't know. But more generally, what point are you trying to make? That they were treated as well as the men?
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For example if you like Soviet missiles and a crisis, you will love what happened during my childhood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypriot_S-300_crisis …
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