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>apply for research opportunity
>get a project that a graduating senior hasn't finished
>all his data collection is messy, his graphs are by majority unlabeled and makes cryptic little addenda between protocol steps, as if God himself has ordained this motherfucker AND ONLY this motherfucker gets to make sense and work on this project.
Why is this allowed in academia?
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Job security
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>>8626188
It's to test you to see if you know how shit works regarding your field, sort of a way of weeding out the capable from the incompetent.
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>>8626188
Get his/her e-mail. If he's not a dead beat, I bet he would like to help you out (as long as you are polite). Most people like to see their work bare fruit.
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>>8626215
this
if 6 months of work only makes sense for one person, and it would take another person another 3 months to decipher what his work, then why get a new guy?
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