started from the perspective that I was definitely not the boss or anything like it but, rather, that I had thought about our problem and broken it up into the pieces that we could analyze, the pieces that we needed to test, and the data we needed to get out of our testing. I shared my reasoning with them, and they agreed to follow the plan of work I proposed. The lab has a long-standing tradition of yielding to the strengths of arguments, but this was the first time I had stepped up and offered my arguments for consideration.
