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  • Doesn’t seem to apply to your specific case but usually there’s a big difference between middle of the night vs. during the day. Even though I live in a city with a good public transit infrastructure, if I try to get to my workplace at three in the Morning on a Sunday I will still have a bad time:

    vs.

    That’s why your first screenshot didn’t really prove much.










  • I had to google it, undergrad dissertation apparently means bachelor thesis. It’s a joke to give a bachelor thesis the same name as a real dissertation.

    First off: nobody will cite a bachelor thesis in a well regarded publication. In fact, even real dissertations will rarely be cited. They are not considered peer-reviewed. If you can write a paper based on your thesis and get it accepted at a journal or conference, that’s where you get citations. Usually, that requires a major overhaul of the thesis, though. This definitely requires a support network in the form of a research group. Look into what your university is researching and contact the research groups that look interesting to you.





  • Look into survivorship bias. The only 90 year old smokers you see are of course the ones that survived.

    The statistic is an average. The 30 year old non-smoker being killed in an accident is an outlier exactly the same as the 90 year old that still smokes on the way to their grave. You might not lose anything because you die before you get lung cancer or you lose much more because you develop it at 40 years old, but on average a smoker loses 20 min per cigarette.

    That’s how these statistics usually work:

    (life expectancy of non-smokers - life expectancy of smokers) / # cigarettes an average smoker smokes in their lifetime

    Obviously, it’s not literally like “that one cigarette ends your life 20 minutes earlier”.


  • There are definitely more Klingon professions shown on screen. There’s a Klingon Chef working on DS9, there are more than one case where we see Klingon lawyers and I remember at least one Klingon Scientist. And while B’Elanna is only half-Klingon, her character shows how a Klingon could work as an engineer. All of them probably cases of toxic work environments, but they seem to work. What we see mostly on screen are the crew of warships. Other species must think every Human is a scientist or diplomat.

    simply no way they would ever have adopted the scientific method let alone made it into space.

    Isn’t it canon that they stole most of the spacefaring technology from the Romulans when they made first contact?