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One of the consequences of the fundamental attribution error is that idiosyncrasies in grad student training are underappreciated (i.e. people instead attribute diffs to skills).
Did you gain habits (etc) in grad school that you later discovered to be weird/different? I did (
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Did you gain habits (etc) in grad school that you later discovered to be weird/different? I did (
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I was taught in grad school to answer questions with data or to say that you don't know (i.e., avoid speculation). Driven by a prof who was aggressive with questions (it was viewed as a way to "toughen up" students - the person had a long career of contentious debates).
Worst thing you could do in our grad student seminar was to pretend to know something that you didn't. Of course, there were some general theoretical conversations in some cases... but if you didn't have data to speak to the issue, the best course was always to just say IDK.
When I went on to do my postdoc, I was informed that this made it seem like I hadn't thought about things and/or wasn't interested (not the case, obv). I've been trying to work on it, but this is how I learned to give talks! Hard to untrain that.
