tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32079676.post4528664196287061050..comments2024-02-13T21:22:02.522-08:00Comments on RRResearch: Should women ask for more, or are we punished for being 'greedy'?Rosie Redfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06807912674127645263noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32079676.post-50411470252181680892012-08-11T01:10:29.059-07:002012-08-11T01:10:29.059-07:00"Women's grants must also be shorter, bec..."Women's grants must also be shorter, because the disparity is even more dramatic when funding is calculated per year." If yearly amounts show a larger difference, shouldn't their grants be longer instead of shorter? Eg use the same sum of money over a greater number of years, so the yearly allocation is smaller.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32079676.post-51388245906489232072012-08-07T11:40:49.073-07:002012-08-07T11:40:49.073-07:00Figure fixed. (I had copied the authors' figu...Figure fixed. (I had copied the authors' figure but neglected to add the information from the legend.)Rosie Redfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06807912674127645263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32079676.post-18624171973471049532012-08-07T11:10:38.282-07:002012-08-07T11:10:38.282-07:00rosemary,
love the blog but PLEASE do a better job...rosemary,<br />love the blog but PLEASE do a better job with your figures (e.g. what do the bars you show correspond to— for all I know women are on the left and men on the right!). i should be able to understand the meaning of your figures by simply looking at them. i realise this is just a blog, but in my lab I expect EVERY figure my students and postdocs present (even informally to me), to have well-labeled axes and make a clear and well defined point. In the same way that science blogging helps us practice our written communication skills, the visuals we present on these blogs should also serve as practice for communicating information visually. Just my two cents, but I think you know i get results.<br /><br />WWendellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32079676.post-53864774945853714632012-08-04T12:23:50.981-07:002012-08-04T12:23:50.981-07:00I agree that the authors' hypothesis is plausi...I agree that the authors' hypothesis is plausible, but they should have raised the alternatives even if they couldn't get their hands on the data needed to test them.<br /><br />More generally, it's easy to relax when we've identified what we see as a likely explanation, but the alternatives still need to be rigorously tested.Rosie Redfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06807912674127645263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32079676.post-43965340526573031872012-08-04T10:03:00.811-07:002012-08-04T10:03:00.811-07:00I really don't think that committees punish wo...I really don't think that committees punish women for greed because (a) Wellcome funding success rates are v. similar for men and women (though far fewer females apply) and (b) I sit on a Wellcome committee and money is the last thing looked at after the science is appraised - it's rather unusual for a grant funding to be reduced, though if someone was clearly asking for more than needed it would be cut.<br />I think it more likely that women ask for less - and this would be part of the same psychology that makes them less willing to ask for promotion, salary rises etc., which is pretty well documented.Dorothy Bishophttp://deevybee.blogspot.co.uk/noreply@blogger.com