{"id":1791,"date":"2016-07-31T06:03:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T06:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2025-01-30T07:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T07:44:36","slug":"self-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/2016\/07\/31\/self-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Self promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Self-promotion<\/a>

Self-promotion
via Bad Science Jokes<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

I do find the trope that women do not self-promote tiresome. If I self-promote, does this mean that I am not a woman? \ud83d\ude15 <\/p>\n

It is not in my nature to do disco moves in a lab, but I do admit to having done some stuff<\/a>. However, when I talk about the stuff I have done, this does not always seem to go down so well.<\/p>\n

I have been told I have a male brain, more times than I can count. (Aren’t male brains supposedly more numerate?). I get so cross with this. I do not have a male brain. I just have a brain<\/a>, and a number of personality traits that are culturally coded male<\/a>. I work as a statistician, so I am logical and analytical and even reductionist because it is my job to be logical and analytical and even reductionist.<\/p>\n

I am empathetic and creative, and a friendly person, generally, and when I am a statistician-scientist I am in an analytical role, so when my recommendations based on your data appear to be unsympathetic to your scientific intuition, that is because I doing my job with integrity and not because I am callous. I like Bayesian<\/a> thinking, but I do not, as a rule, account for hope – mine or yours – in the prior distribution when I analyse the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do find the trope that women do not self-promote tiresome. If I self-promote, does this mean that I am not a woman? \ud83d\ude15 It is not in my nature to do disco moves in a lab, but I do … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,4,105],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-beyond","category-meta","category-women-in-science","tag-self-promotion-women-in-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}