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15. The Most “Unique, Excellent, and Promising” Episode

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Gender Gap in Medical Education

In academic medicine, not much is changed in more than three decades. Just a quarter of full professors to day are women. Men who are more than 12% more likely to use at least one positive term in the title or abstract of their per this genera difference was even more pronounced in research published in the highest impact journals. The papers that were described with words like novel, unique, unprecedented weren't necessarily more novel or unique.

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