[harerazer]

> Although I admit the worst environment probably is found in academia because of the lack of checks and balances (being in the wrong lab can really be a nightmare), I would argue the best environment may also be in academia.

Isn’t this equivalent to saying that academia has the highest variability?

[j7ake]

I'm saying something about both the spread and the center of the distribution. You can have a distribution with higher variability vs reference but still higher lower-bound because of different means of the distribution.