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Topic	17 year old girl wins $150,000 for using smartphones to detect Kawasaki disease.
COVxy 03/25/23 6:32:47 PM #18:	I think most people don't understand how much of an uneven playing field science is, and how much early opportunaties like this drive success, and how much these early opportunities purely depend on who your parents were. I've spent a lot of time thinking about equity in science, and working towards it. And these competitions tend to exemplify the worst if it. It would be harmless if it were just these competitions. But these competitions influence chances to get into certain univerities, scholarships, and even early independent funding as a grad student. It ripples through the system. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] <cite>COVxy posted [p:972410121] in 17 year ol... [t:80390945]...</cite> <quote>I think most people don't understand how much of an uneven playing field science is, and how much early opportunaties like this drive success, and how much these early opportunities purely depend on who your parents were. I've spent a lot of time thinking about equity in science, and working towards it. And these competitions tend to exemplify the worst if it.It would be harmless if it were just these competitions. But these competitions influence chances to get into certain univerities, scholarships, and even early independent funding as a grad student. It ripples through the system. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])]</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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