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The speaker says that a researcher can develop substantially between the first year of a PhD and the postdoc stage over roughly five years and perhaps 10, 15, or 30 research projects.
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“know we we develop pretty quickly right and so like you know if you think about like even like in a phd the difference between like a first year phd student and like a final like postdoc or something that's like five years maybe and they've only done like maybe like 10 15 30 research projects in total but somehow they develop”51:52Report a misattribution
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