The importance of stupidity in scientific research - A short essay that immediately made me feel better! (Jul/10/2008 )

If you sometimes feel you are struggling to cope with life as a researcher this essay will make you feel better.

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That's an EXCELLENT essay... Wish I had read it in grad school... thanks for pointing it out

so many things make sense now

this was a great article!

Tried to read but felt too stupid to understand. Will re-attempt later

Thank you for the article.

nice article, well, I agree with the opinion in this article.

Thanks

Great article!!!! Wish we only had to deal with this form of stupidity in science

I wish I'd read that when doing my PhD!

That's exactly how it is - science had been so easy, I'd never done a scrap of work in school or uni and I just found it easy because I was good at exams. I felt so stupid when I did my PhD - a new feeling for me and very very depressing. It also didn't help that my supervisor and collegues made me feel even stupider - it turned out it was because they didn't know either!

nice article really very nice