{"id":15413,"date":"2014-10-27T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=15413"},"modified":"2014-10-27T03:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T08:00:05","slug":"dont-tell-me-my-love-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15413","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t Tell Me My Love is Wrong!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunclipse.org\/?p=1585\">Doing Elitism Wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This kind of cheap, lazy elitism ticks me off. It says nothing about <em>why science is hard to understand<\/em>, and it doesn\u2019t even get the frustrations of the job right. I mean, \u201ccollecting data\u201d? \u201cDense research articles\u201d? Neither of those necessarily implies tedium or drudgery. Shockingly, not everything which requires patience and concentration is unpleasant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard the remark from a colleague that 80% of what we do is mundane, but we do that because 20% is really, really neat. (YMMV). One needs to acknowledge that science is not alone in this \u2014 professional (or other top-level) athletes, for example, spend more time practicing than they do playing the game. It&#8217;s all part of the larger picture. And, as Blake points out, who&#8217;s to say what is tedium or drudgery?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing Elitism Wrong This kind of cheap, lazy elitism ticks me off. It says nothing about why science is hard to understand, and it doesn\u2019t even get the frustrations of the job right. I mean, \u201ccollecting data\u201d? \u201cDense research articles\u201d? &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15413\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}