Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedRaj Chetty: belief
24 May 2017 Conversations with Tyler Raj Chetty on Teachers, Social Mobility, and How to Find Answers to Big Questions
“I learned through that experience that while science was fascinating and extremely important, I was more excited about the statistical aspects of that work rather than the staining itself or the pipetting or the microscopy.”
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- Raj Chetty
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- 24 May 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Like your mother, in a sense. Right, like my mom and like my sisters, I was really interested in things like biomedical engineering. So, to get more experience with that, I worked in a lab for a couple of years at the medical college of Wisconsin when I was in high school. The lab I happened to work in was an electron microscopy lab, and they were developing staining techniques to identify different types of cells and so on. That’s the project I was involved in. I learned through that experience that while science was fascinating and extremely important, I was more excited about the statistical aspects of that work rather than the staining itself or the pipetting or the microscopy. That experience showed me that I was more interested in the numbers side, thinking about social problems — coming back to the earlier experiences we talked about — and that led me down a different path. And then from your father you always knew economics was out there, right?…
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