I was frustrated because results that I thought were substantial now felt diminished. Maybe I was making too big a deal of what I had uncovered. Or maybe this was part of the academic rite of passage that required you to defend the importance of your work to a skeptical audience of senior academics. I lobbed back questions of my own to Hal and the rest of the committee. “Should I show the faces of those who are mislabeled?” None of the committee saw an issue, but showing the mislabeled faces directly didn’t sit well with me. It felt like I would be framing an insult that had been applied to
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