Project B: Biochemical Markers of Neuron Growth
Investigator: Alison Barth, Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon
Team: Drew Crossett, Steven Wasik


Drew is passive

Steve is passive agressive

they have their own agenda and it is not the project

they tend to inexpertly parrot the sciecne (and even the analogies of the scientist) without thinking about what it all means

In different ways, neither is a careful thinker.  
  - neither has an organized approach to their work
  - drew is a plodder - he can parrot an action or phrase but that's about it
  - steve makes random stabs at things.  Sometimes he stumbles on something 
    useful but often this is a waste of time. Moreso because he is slow to look
    at other ways of doing things if he has decided on a direction to go
  - neither makes much effort to build evidential warrants for assertions
    they make in the project

Steve's passive/agressivity came out in several ways
  - at the beginning he was effectively trying to torpedo the project 
    because he didn't feel Alison respected him
  - in the middle and at the end he allowed his view of the noisiness / 
    chunkiness of the data to dominate over Alison's scientific questions.
  - misses meetings, comes unprepared, etc.

Drew's passivity means that he is not much of a learner
  - can't figure out the science
  - writes in cliches and colloquialisms
  - not much followthrough if he starts to tip off the tracsk
  - wants to be everybody's buddy