...because you might not like the answer. For instance, last night I found myself asking "I wonder if people actually like my blog posts better than my papers?" Don't answer that.
In grad school, some friends and I once attended a very bad talk by a prominent ecologist. This led to a conversation over beers about whether talk quality is negatively or positively correlated with prominence of the speaker. We decided that there's no correlation. On...
Some candidates: "That's a great question, which my next slide addresses." "The error bars are too small to be visible." (one of the benefits of being a microcosmologist is that I get to say this a fair bit) Then there are the sentences you wish you could say, but...
Because they're mostly not cited often, indicating that they can only be appreciated by a cultivated elite . If everybody and their mother was citing me, that would mean my papers were the scientific equivalent of Two Buck Chuck . At least, that's what I like to tell...
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