The idea for this post sat in my drafts for 16 months because I feared coming off as someone who doesn’t understand the value of measurement or impact. On the contrary: throughout my 20s, I worked in no fewer than 15 labs — ranging in psychology from the social/emotional (“quantifying the experience of inspiration”) to the neurobiological (“visuo-spatial representations in Alzheimer’s disease”). When I moved to NYC, my first job as a newly-minted postgraduate was in a neurobiology lab in the basement of Mount Sinai where I was tasked with managing the data of mice. As a doctoral student, I cultivated a certain obsessive joy in transforming the qualitative into the quantitative — coding adolescents’ arguments into numbers by the nature of their quality. My favorite class in grad school was HUDM 5059 — Psychological Measurement. The all-encompassing mantra that Only Findings of Statistical Significance Are Worth Considering spread into my life outside of labs, too.
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