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13 Post author: Dreaded_Anomaly 04 March 2011 04:17AM

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Comment author: nerzhin 04 March 2011 04:31:19PM 4 points [-]

Impostor syndrome is pretty common among men too, in my experience. It may still be more common in women, but I'm not sure.

Comment author: Vladimir_M 04 March 2011 05:51:48PM 2 points [-]

Yes, this should definitely be taken into account. In fact, given the present state of many fields, I'm sure that for many people in academia the "impostor syndrome" is just a true realization that their work is worthless.