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Clinical psychology graduate student. Simplistic-bio haver. Hyphenated-compound-adjective enthusiast. (she/her/hers)
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Aug 15, 2020 11 tweets 3 min read
Q: Why do undergraduates flounder at generating research ideas?
A: Productive curiosity is a skill that needs to be taught. My first Twitter thread! (1/11)
#PsychTwitter #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #ScienceTwitter Learning how to ask scientific questions requires familiarity with the types of questions that science is best-suited to answer. “Be curious!” and “Ask questions!” is easy for you to say, because you’re already a nerd who self-selected into an inquisitive profession. (2/11)