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I agree. It sounds very much like an employment relationship - the fact that you can't/don't feel able to choose your own projects is a big red flag here. If this were a standard s…

Find your support network. You know that you work well with other people, so find ways for other people to help you be accountable.

In fact - it isn't racism, according to the link you have provided. "Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another." Superiority is a key word here. The link act…

Also in bioinformatics: I worked up some statistics that turned out to cleanly and robustly contradict my supervisor's previous research. I was told to reverse my conclusions - ref…

How much of this discount is for tracking, and how much is pure price discrimination? The barrier of carrying a card allows the supermarket to give a discount to customers who are …

By my understanding, global income inequality is improving but global wealth inequality is worsening: The conclusion that I draw is that while people broadly in this position might…

I meant far more frequently than on Earth, and far more extreme. "Life finds a way" - but if the temperature suddenly jumps 100 degrees because your goldilocks zone librated into t…

I find that it completely unlikely that 'eyeball' planets would have a life-supporting zone. Over geological time period, the zone is likely to suffer unpredictable and novel varia…

If it's an example and not a political manifesto, then perhaps it could be written without misogynist and heteronormative (i.e. political) undertones. It's not an illustrative exam…

I found this example exceptionally difficult to read and comprehend. I recognise that this is known as the "Stable Marriage Problem", yet I still feel an aversion to marriage being…

I also conclude the opposite. The time card looks very much like any time card of a single individual 's regular internet use - showing the sleep pattern/circadian rhythm of a sing…

I've never understood this semantic point of statistics. When used in English, the word "accept" literally means "fail to reject", and has no more implication than that. Do people …

What counts as autonomous seems often to be inflated when considering positive statistics such as miles driven, and minimised when considering negative statistics such as fatalitie…

>If more women are getting screened more frequently then their cancers will be detected earlier and improve survival rate. Yes, but the article argues directly against this point.