Church's lab selection criteria prioritize 'niceness' over pure genius, multidisciplinarity, and these factors predict both in-lab performance and post-lab success, resulting in an 'international set of alumni that are quite nice to each other' despite supposedly working in cutthroat fields
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George ChurchEvidence Quote
“I'm looking for people that are nice... nice, I think, is highly predictive of how well you will do in the lab and afterwards”
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:40:03 AM
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