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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For insanity purposes my kids HS graduation class in NY her Valedictorian was a guest lecturer at Columbia and [b]was advising a Nobel Prize winner on his work. [/b]
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Come on... does anyone believe a high school kid was providing useful/ meaningful advice to a Nobel Prize winner? Nonsense. [/quote]

Yeah, this is a bit much.  I think the whole cottage industry that has sprung up around high school students allegedly meaningful contributions to science research and literature has warped perspective around how difficult true, meaningful research is.  We see this in experienced researchers seemingly fudging data, lying about data/findings, etc. in search of something impactful to say.

It's a 'thing" now that high schools students think that 'research' will give them an edge.  And universities (via summer programs run by third parties), and independent outfits are happy to oblige. There is money to be made. Get a name on a paper, spend time in a lab 'advising' sounds impressive for sure.  But hard to believe much of it is authentically real.  Im sure there are edge case with talented students, but see it too often in forums for much of it to be geniune IMHO[/quote]

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