- Jeff Day: Recent Comments Tool
This tool has been running since August 2006. posted Feb 17, 06:25pm
- delurkely: When to cut your losses
"The smartest scientists I know are the ones who are always willing to jettison their ideas in favor of something more likely to yield interesting and useful results. The worst are the ones who just will not let go of their bad ideas, and aren't creative enough to figure out a workaround." Lessee... The smartest scientists I know are the ones who are always will to jettison their (unhappy and unyielding single track career plans) in favor of something more likely to yield interesting (science and a sa... posted Feb 17, 06:58am
- Funky Fresh: When to cut your losses
YFS: I'd like you to read your comment and replace "hypothesis" and "technique" with "post-doc" and "my life thus far". You might find something rather jaw-droppingly obvious. posted Feb 17, 04:19am
- JaneB: When to cut your losses
I also think that scientists (me definitely included) can be reluctant to face up to some of the individual elements involved in problems. Sometimes something won't work because of the combination of the project, the resources and the person doing the work, and admitting to the second and third of those without just blaming the student/postdoc requires humility and uncommon sense. Some people are just not good at some techniques - making decisions about pushing to achieve competance in a personally h... posted Feb 17, 02:41am
- Ms.PhD: When to cut your losses
In my experience, things usually don't work when they're designed badly in the first place. The smartest scientists I know are the ones who are always willing to jettison their ideas in favor of something more likely to yield interesting and useful results. The worst are the ones who just will not let go of their bad ideas, and aren't creative enough to figure out a workaround. posted Feb 16, 11:20am
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