This meeting could have been a crumpled-up napkin with the words "your work is irrelevant" tossed on my desk.
@bikepedantic A famous professor visited our lab when I was a student and I was picked to spend some time presenting my work to him. On slide #2 he interrupted to say, “Just so we’re clear, none of your work is interesting or novel. Okay then, proceed.”
Same vibes lol
@dx @bikepedantic similar experience on a visioning roundtable not along ago when a famous urbanist* told the group, right after I spoke, that my kind of research is meaningless.
*a term I use here to describe someone who has a seat at the table only because they are opinionated and loud
@DrTCombs oh and i just cited your research two weeks ago as a bunch of dumb white guys were debating how we demonstrate that Covid shutdown traffic fatalities were due in part to excess roadway capacity.... well what if we had a database of places that implemented capacity reductions, and could test if there was a different experience there? @dx
@bikepedantic @dx WHAT IF???
I've been pleading with my state overlords to fund just this sort of evaluation, but I think they find it threatening.
@DrTCombs @bikepedantic @dx I sometimes wonder how much really interesting data you could gather based just on things people *won't* fund.
@wordshaper @bikepedantic @dx well that's not a remotely distracting thing to think about.
my god, it would be SO INTERESTING.
@DrTCombs @bikepedantic @dx It's only nerdsniping when there's resources to follow up!
And boy, I so, so wish I had the resources to fund studies like this. It's always good when you can dual-use your cash, and getting "proper people-moving studies" *and* "troll dudes who never moved past their love of muscle cars when they were 12" with the same money would be :chefskiss:
@wordshaper @bikepedantic @dx I just learned my new favorite word.
