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grimalkina

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Social & Evidence Scientist. Defender of the mismeasured. ๐Ÿฆ„๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

I do #psychology and #evidence and #statistics and #measurement theory and #research with #software teams on how to help developers thrive. My focus areas include how people form beliefs about #learning and build strategies for #resilience #productivity #motivation

Founder of the Developer Success Lab โค๏ธ
Neighborhood Cool Science Aunt

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philipncohen, to random
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Today I realized "resilience" in psychology is inequality in sociology. Something is a "risk factor" if it has an average negative effect. If everyone overcame the risk equally there would be no negative effect and thus no resilience. Resilience means some people overcome it and others don't.

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@bthalpin @philipncohen this is a very sweeping claim to make about a huge field that has enormous focuses on social structures.

grimalkina,
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@philipncohen what? This is just not true. Maybe in some specific types of operationalizations or analyses that you might care about for a specific question it's true. But it's not true across psychology as a whole that there's no understanding of inequality or of within-individual resilience as well (times you are more or less resilient eg). Really confused by this point and claim

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@bthalpin @philipncohen I mean many, many subfields of psychology including all the work I've ever done or studied in crisis work and applied psych start deeply with structure. Having literally worked on "resilience" in areas like trauma-informed health design I really don't think this is a fair point. Maybe a specific fight you want to have with some small academic subset, not the whole big field.

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@bthalpin @philipncohen like, social constructivism and similar theories are from psychology! Plenty of ways to be a psychologist who doesn't really believe in fixed individual diffs at all and in fact many historical traditions in psych for this

grimalkina,
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@philipncohen ah I see I see. Some of the replies here seem to be taking this in a different direction and reading that colored how I read your original post!

grimalkina, to random
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Random but: just before I got really ill I did a cool research project with my consultancy Catharsis about mid career women in tech using sudden pandemic WFH (along and despite its adversities) to advocate for being seen differently or to get chances that were denied when they were in person. Qualitative interviews with really cool stories about strategy in these moments. Then obviously I got crushed by illness so the data is just sitting on my shelf.

I should find the time to write it up ๐Ÿฅฐ

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@Jackiemauro a rather underappreciated story in all the research on "pandemic effects" at work I thought!!

grimalkina,
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Some notable themes were the shared experience of others becoming less functionally fixed about roles and skills during this time, as if the chaos opened up both bad and good possibilities but some of the women I talked to were able to leverage that attitudinal shift in others to make a bid for a new role, or to break a rule that had held them back from being given a chance because of a perceived lack of qualifications. It was so interesting

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@Jackiemauro one thread: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112446788829815979

grimalkina,
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@Jackiemauro I recruited specifically for women who had gone through a career change or promotion that felt like a significant milestone to them, and then the majority of the interview we talked about how they felt pandemic circumstances uniquely provided the opportunity. Some really interesting motivation/awareness stories like many folks said that because of WFH changes they learned way more about the men around them and who was doing what work and that they were doing WAY MORE than others

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@Jackiemauro it's a small sample qualitative exploratory study so it's not like a generalizable claim or anything but ugh it felt big!!!!!

grimalkina,
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@Jackiemauro wow so fascinating!! And I heard the opposite too like a lot of women said that suddenly people realized the men on the team were also parents also doing childcare and the fever stereotypes were broken a little which was so good for them not getting bias-cast as "the mom on the team"

grimalkina, to random
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When u are the strategic link saving ur building from catastrophic collapse and ur tired ๐Ÿ˜ญ

https://press.coop/@Nature/112445993229102567

grimalkina,
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For real this is going into my next talk!!!!

grimalkina,
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@Euthydemus boyoboy I'm already there watching all the teaching professors in my life fielding moral injuries while trying to desperately help their students cope and persist in the aftermath of violence on campus

grimalkina, to random
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Went to a new trainer today as I continue on my sometimes terrifying recovery journey* and I'd messaged them before about my accessibility needs and she whipped open the garage door of the training space as I walked up and said "woo let's get that ventilation!!" ๐Ÿ˜ญ

So rare and amazing to be celebrated not treated like a huge imposition

*I don't have PEM I am extremely informed do not give me any medical advice

grimalkina, to random
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It's REALLY weird to me when people in software mine research papers for their content and say "researchers" instead of naming the scientists who actually did the work they're using. We're human beings and our work is our livelihood (at a fraction of yours I might add). Name us.

Blessed for the community around me that has this value, side eye at the content engine that doesn't.

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@kellogh happy to share about it!! Better to think of scientists like "authors," like book writers! Even industry scientists, if they publish, still lead and author work and should be given that credit ๐Ÿค—. For many of us it is the core of our reputation and when we cite each other by name we not only give credit, we also boost our own work because we show the communities of science and innovation that we're in together and that our work is stronger for that!

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@Kathmandu @kellogh I mean it's not like affiliation and institutions signal nothing, of course they signal that you meet the criteria of the institution which frankly is often important. But you know it just doesn't accurately reflect the work & credit involved.

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@drgroftehauge @Kathmandu @kellogh LOL

grimalkina,
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@glyph I totally can see that! worth thinking about for sure, I've heard so many developers express a lot of sadness at the feeling that their intellectual work simply vanishes away from them and I feel like ownership and authorship is something all folks need in some way!

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@glyph @Di4na @luis_in_brief with appreciation for the many implications toward eg mapping technology brittleness and oversight, I was having the same thought that I was thinking about developers themselves having a lifetime view of their own work and sense of legacy and their own personal records of effort but these convos always turn into being about mapping dependencies and the tech ๐Ÿ˜Š

grimalkina,
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@glyph @Di4na @luis_in_brief intersecting and overlapping things for sure and joint solutions perhaps too! No blame for the interesting/important points here I just so often struggle to get space for the other conversation! (Not with present company but in the industry)

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@luis_in_brief @glyph @dartar thank you and agreed! I know some folks who went over to CZI ๐Ÿค— my wife actually does neural data science work/has much contact with large open datasets in neuro/ and is more in this world than I am but have seen a lot because of that! I think some of these scientific+software approaches are fascinating/very heartfelt/a place we can all learn from each other!

grimalkina,
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@luis_in_brief @glyph @dartar my stance as a psychologist for developers is that developers' preferences are highly divided on a lot of things!!! A lot of conflicting norms in this field (e.g., "everyone can learn to be a developer" but also "only some of us are genuises"). I also wonder just about awareness at all of the concerns here

Preferences can be highly malleable, perhaps a useful framing of a question is what causes this preference for attribution to emerge strongly for developers?

grimalkina, to random
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"Randomized trials cannot address all causal questions of importance in medicine and health policy and may have limited generalizability; thus, investigators may need to use observational studies as a source of evidence to address causal questions. The challenge, then, is to balance the importance of addressing the causal questions for which observational studies are needed with caution regarding the reliance on strong assumptions to support causal conclusions."

A challenge of our time truly

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@willyyam tell me more about where your statistical "home" feels like it is and what kind of problems in the world you are thinking about!!

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