scientists' abilities

Graduate School
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<p>I have seen my fair shares of postdoc/research scientist who has very poor lab skills so much so that I wonder how did they ever got their PhD…and also graduate students who managed to publish in high-impact journals before they graduate.</p>

<p>I wonder what factors lies beneath it? Talent? Advisor? Luck? Hardwork?</p>

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<p>I have friends that wouldn’t know a beaker from a Bunsen burner, but they all do theoretical and/or computational work, so there’s no need for them to learn their way around a lab.</p>

<p>Publishing in a high impact journal is a bit of everything you mentioned.</p>