Apart from being inherently exclusionary it's also false. For what I want to do and for what my academic interests are, I'm balanced in my opinion. It's fine to believe that for your career you need to work on various skills, but don't project it into others.
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"Who I am is not constrained by what's written on my diploma."
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Amusingly of course my PhD says "in Psychology".

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As does mine, actually.

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*high five*
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Olivia, I do multi-disciplinary work, and this somehow gives people the license to take me down on why I am not a 'something else'..... Guess this is where we roll our eyes and continue doing what we are passionate about.
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Thank you for the supporting words!

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But being expert in one thing and collaborating with someone who's an expert in the other should fix that 'imbalance' - that's the point of collaborating. Multidisciplinary is good, but it's not 'better' or 'worse' than being an expert in one thing.
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There's a great benefit of having 'imbalanced' experts. I mean, imagine you told statisticians that they should do more empirical work. Why would that be useful??
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I wonder about the motivation of people who would say that These days, things change so fast, nobody will stay an expert in multiple fields. This is what teamwork and collaboration are for.
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it's also deeply silly even if you believe it makes one not as well-rounded; scientific progress comes much more often from people with differing views bouncing off each other than single imaginary geniuses in whose head all the thinking occurs. diversity of view!
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