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# GGG 298 - Week 6
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## Wednesday lab - 2/12
Git and GitHub for project organization
## Friday Discussion - 2/14
### 1
>For the most part, I believe the authors' suggestions align with Chapman's concerns, suggesting a scene that is **iterative, cultivates multiple categories of learners, and welcomes group self-sufficiency**.
### 2
>**if the community is established by people that do not want to Foster open discussion, it could do the opposite by only training people on one "right method" which in essence just keeps the same issues of cargo cultism.**
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### 3
> If we are all in accidental CoPs then of course we will just copy one another and not take and receive advice without necessarily considering the larger implications of our practices. But if we form **purposeful CoPs then this encourages meaningful discussion by creating a safe space.**
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### 4
> **A large and cohesive community of the type presented by this paper will filter ideas, for better or worse.** As a positive, it would likely strike down ideas that more obviously resemble cargo-cult science. However, **it may also discourage novel and creative ideas that deviate from the status quo.**
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### 5
> there is a certain limit as to how much a certain community can help. For example, here at Davis we are a very interdisciplinary campus, thus, there are numerous of projects with different aims, questions, and hypothesis, **where does one go when no one in the community is able to aid in a particular script/pipeline for a given project?**
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### 6
>The cargo cult article pointed out the distinction between knowing how to do things (and just doing them) and knowing why these things are done (and how they work). **A deeper understanding can only come about through experience and exposure to others with more experience.** The study group based approach addresses the second issue while helping cultivate experience.
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### 7
>It’s pretty much a systematic approach to preventing cargo cult science. **It’s like a pyramid scheme for teaching but with actual beneficial results.** The only drawback I can really see is that different communities will have different approaches to solving a problem and it will all come down to **who has “better” code** or statistics.
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### 8
>**isolation, not just among learning individuals, but between labs and groups as well, can result in adoption of bad, outdated, or irreplicable practices**. As long as there are ways to expand and freely share the knowledge acquired by these communities, it will certainly aid in the "doing" of science.
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### 9
>**Small groups with few trainers can have the opposite effect of indoctrinating the larger group** as the inexperienced are trained in a new discipline.
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### 10
>An important aspect of a community of practice is the **guidance that it provides to beginners** who are trying to get into a new field.
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### 11
>I think that local community of practice is a start for change to happen. However, **change is both top down and bottom up**, and this article focuses primarily on a bottom up change, ignoring to some degree the systematic problems that already exist.
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## Homework for next week, Week 7
### Assignment
(Due Friday 2/21 at 11am, entered into [this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYEV2hp3Ejl9qNpI_CX9th9uQgY_Un8S6Tnt2UHLlSogdBPQ/viewform).)
Reading TBD