{"id":851,"date":"2008-06-19T01:15:40","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T07:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=851"},"modified":"2008-06-19T01:15:40","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T07:15:40","slug":"i-know-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"I Know Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McArdle has a <a href=\"http:\/\/meganmcardle.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/the_perils_of_graduate_educati.php\">great post<\/a> about the arrogance of graduate students.<\/p>\n<p>But I have to agree with some of her commenters.  This is a far more common attitude among social science grad students than physical science ones.  I know my share of arrogant physicists and astronomers, but the ratio is much smaller.  The reason is because science itself is very humbling.  I think I&#8217;m pretty smart &#8212; the test scores say so &#8212; but grad school sometimes made me feel like an idiot and nature <i>always<\/i> does.  There&#8217;s nothing to take your ego down like having a paper turn out to be complete bullshit &#8212; or seeing a paper by a respected peer turn out to be bullshit.  Nature has a way of proving us wrong over and over again.  It&#8217;s difficult to think you know everything when you are confronted by your ignorance on a daily basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McArdle has a great post about the arrogance of graduate students. But I have to agree with some of her commenters. This is a far more common attitude among social science grad students than physical science ones. I know my share of arrogant physicists and astronomers, but the ratio is much smaller. The reason is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=851\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Know Everything<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-dJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}