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but you're totally right, scientists waste an enormous amount of time and labor because of the strong disincentives towards the diffusion of infrastructure in labs. everyone reinvents everything from scratch, and so you might not even be exposed to the idea of modeling your data until it's way too late. the bigger labs can limp along like this, compensating for shitty infra by just throwing more labor at the problem, but it can swamp and shutter smaller labs. in both cases it can have long ranging and extremely massive impacts on the work culture that can't be appreciated as infrastructural problems by people within the lab because there is no alternative in sight.