I would like to add something that’s not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you’re talking as a scientist.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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Unbending opinions.
The need to put other people down.
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Aggression without provocation or consequences.
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Discipline. Also to have a goal, however small and whatever it may be.
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My trust in other people. I am rigorously honest.
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