It's astonishing that people can not see this bias given how ubiquitous it is in scientific life.
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Replying to @mbeisen @Ilovepigenetics
I can see it. People in academia have always been told they are smart, the best, highest achieving. When first told about privilege...(1/?)
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It's easy to see it as being told for the first time you AREN'T as smart or successful as you thought. Someone else might be smarter. (2/?)
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But your success, of course, says otherwise. If you WEREN"T the smartest, how would you have gotten that job? (3/?)
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Plus, we all live in our own bubbles in which we all feel we are constantly on the edge of collapse. Life is hard for everyone. (4/?)
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I can see how guys don't want to hear "you've had it easy, you have no challenges." Life on easy mode is still life, which still sucks (5/?)
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It's a big challenge to ego and to sense of self. And academics (and ex-academics)...have big egos. :) (6/6)
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Replying to @BeeBrookshire @scicurious and
Seems like human nature. Maybe worse in academics, but most humans attribute own success to intrinsic factors (talent/effort)...
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Replying to @bakermind @scicurious and
...and attribute failure to extrinsic factors (environment/luck/bias). They fail to recognize roles of extrinsic in their own success...
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Replying to @bakermind @scicurious and
...in public, this leads to 'bootstraps' metaphors and 'why can't they do it? I did.' //
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Yes, even women do it. Often referred to as survivor bias.
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