This quiz was a way of getting at “impostor syndrome.” Technically, the term means *feeling like an impostor*, feeling like you are less capable/competent than others with the same credentials.https://twitter.com/s_r_constantin/status/1228715932056309763 …
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We could speculate on why that is: underprivileged? talented at illegible things? not optimizing for resume-building? overconfident?
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I often hear people saying that *everything possible* is being done to fund and support talented/competent people, but there just aren’t enough such people. That’s not my opinion, and it seems to not be the opinion of most who answered the poll.
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I know from experience that there are a lot of people whose resumes look weak relative to their abilities. And I don’t think the market for them is at all competitive.
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I have also found that when I do a project that I can count as an “accomplishment” it’s typically both more ambitious and has less help from others than what other people count as a similar accomplishment (like “a PhD thesis”), which adds up to fewer prestige points overall.
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An ability to find the minimum-effort path to a claimable accomplishment seems to be essential to getting an impressive resume, and it’s not a skill people really teach or even admit exists.
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Uh. I think when responding to your poll people were *not* comparing how impressive their performance would be in a real-life job-related task to how impressive their resume is.
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I think they were pretty much just taking into account the fact that, as a general rule, people tend to like people they become familiar with.
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