Me trying to remember the name of the RA that did all analyses of a seminal paper that got me a $500,000 salary.
Wait, wait, don't tell me!
Ok, so this is the number of likes we can expect on a viral econ meme in this place?
What’s the story????
That’s just me trying to remember what I’m supposed to be doing that I circled the date three times
This is why you thank RAs in the acknowledgements of papers they helped on: to remember them years later when your fraud gets found out and you need a scapegoat. Also to acknowledge their actual help but the other thing, too, if you lack the grace to actually thank them for their work.
BRUTAL
🫠🫠🫠. Right. Amazing how spotty that memory is.
If your defense of data hygiene includes the word "Excel," you don't have a defense.
Taking this at face value, does this give big shot academics a perverse incentive to give authorship to juniors so they can later be thrown under the bus?