I think I'd make a really bad researcher.

Unless good researchers:

1] chafe at having to wait 8 hours to conduct a 1 hour experiment
2] mentally curse and swear at target respondents who do not participate and wish that they'll miss their bus, train, taxi or approximately 10,000 green lights on the way home
3] verbally curse and swear at respondents who circle "neutral" indiscriminately
4] snarl at flippant respondents who have the I-did-nothing-to-earn-the-reward-money-and-you-know-it-but-can't-do-jackshit look on their faces
5] have to restrain themselves from whacking respondents who do not read instructions, do not ask questions, answer all questions incorrectly, and yet still remember to collect their reward
6] heap tons of verbal abuse on the clueless sods who failed your exceedingly simple manipulation checks and wonder how they got past secondary school
7] feel like handing out a definitive answer sheet together with the experiment sheet
8] think of absconding with all the reward money to Bihimi and getting a new identity as a retired dotcommer named Carlos who is brown as a monkey

No. I really don't think I'd make a good academic researcher.

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