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Jessica Wade: belief

5 Apr 2023 Conversations with Tyler Jessica Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM

“I think sometimes it’s useful. You can get pageviews. Sometimes that’s useful as a motivator for why people care about it.”

— Jessica Wade

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Speaker
Jessica Wade
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
5 Apr 2023
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…If I think of my own work, typically I prefer not to know, say, how many people listen to a particular episode of the podcast or read a particular blog post. It’s better not to know. You write all these Wikipedia pages — there’s no obvious means of feedback where you know how effective you are. Do you like it that way? Or do you wish you had a way of measuring the efficacy of your output? I think sometimes it’s useful. You can get pageviews. Sometimes that’s useful as a motivator for why people care about it. So, you can get page views.…

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