Mentorship ‘strongly predicts’ protégé success in the sciences
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Rebecca Trager2020-06-11T12:05:00
Researchers whose mentors later win science prizes are two- to four times more likely to go on to have ‘superstar’ careers
Mentorship in the sciences is associated with a two- to four-fold increase in a protégé’s likelihood of having a so-called ‘superstar’ career, according to one of the largest studies ever conducted on this topic to date. The new research incorporates information about tens of thousands of mentors and mentees and draws on actual performance data as well as machine learning to avoid sampling and recall biases.