Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem
"To the surprise of experts in the field, a postdoctoral statistician has solved ..."<p>Wth? Am I the only one bothered by this opening statement? A post-doc IS an expert in the field. One who has spent a significant number of years doing a PhD to become THE expert in their own particular subfield, and presumably many more years after that diving into even greater detail.<p>Since when have we grown so accustomed to postdocs that we're treating them as on par with undergraduates in terms of academic value, and are so super surprised when they make an important discovery?