It's weird to see engineering leaders leading thousands of people acting like their hands are tied by the conclusions of like, one survey at Microsoft with a hundred people in it.

Granted I think my ability to lead research is quite unique. But with love: you can have evidence too

@grimalkina I suspect there are structural/organizational reasons why data from other orgs is more persuasive. I see it all the time in universities.

@grimalkina I suspect there are structural/organizational reasons why data from other orgs is more persuasive. I see it all the time in universities.

@grimalkina I suspect there are structural/organizational reasons why data from other orgs is more persuasive. I see it all the time in universities.

Granted I think my ability to lead research is quite unique. But with love: you can have evidence too

@grimalkina it is quite maddening. I ran up against this in my early MA work on gender disparities in journalism. Orgs with vast data teams were very reluctant to study themselves and voraciously eager to hear about peers.

@grimalkina it is quite maddening. I ran up against this in my early MA work on gender disparities in journalism. Orgs with vast data teams were very reluctant to study themselves and voraciously eager to hear about peers.

I had two PhD social scientists and a dream and was running projects with chewing gum and duct tape and we got more than 5000 people to talk to us about the threat and fear they felt with AI and what helped them value learning despite it

You all *sneeze* and spend what that study cost

@grimalkina
On that theme of “I had chewing gum and duct tape and I did it alone for less than it costs the org to sneeze,” just in case you haven’t already read it, a beautiful tale of gumption:

https://www.pacifict.com/Story/

@grimalkina I eventually gave up on research about equity and representation in journalism (though not other work on it), after concluding they could speak truth to any power but themselves.

@natematias so exhausting, I am really sorry you went through that and can totally empathize with the shape of this problem from other areas. I felt this way about working in nonprofit edtech space where organizations had access to exceptionally rare and powerful evidence from across hundreds of schools and no motivation at all to properly invest in learning from it and sharing it back with those communities.

I had two PhD social scientists and a dream and was running projects with chewing gum and duct tape and we got more than 5000 people to talk to us about the threat and fear they felt with AI and what helped them value learning despite it

You all *sneeze* and spend what that study cost

I had two PhD social scientists and a dream and was running projects with chewing gum and duct tape and we got more than 5000 people to talk to us about the threat and fear they felt with AI and what helped them value learning despite it

You all *sneeze* and spend what that study cost

@natematias in a lot of ways I feel like making progress on this is a lifelong mission that you and I share in our different ways/areas.

Granted I think my ability to lead research is quite unique. But with love: you can have evidence too

@natematias so exhausting, I am really sorry you went through that and can totally empathize with the shape of this problem from other areas. I felt this way about working in nonprofit edtech space where organizations had access to exceptionally rare and powerful evidence from across hundreds of schools and no motivation at all to properly invest in learning from it and sharing it back with those communities.