Talk:Pardis Sabeti

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This article was nominated for deletion on 2008-06-10. The result of the discussion was keep.

This person is a junior post-doctoral scientist and can hardly be considered notable. It is true she has received a lot of interest from journalists. Her one academic achievement seems to be the EHH test for selection which is a rather mediocre piece of applied statistics. It's true that many mediocre applied statisticians rise above their abilities in human genetics. Statistical genetics is a field motivated by politics and money rather than ability. There is no reason for Wikipedia to succumb. Speedy deletion Dimdamdocdim (talk) 10:47, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

speedy of course is for no claim to notability whatsoever & does not fit. I think the awards make a discussion at afd advisable. Personally I doubt think shes notable, but she does meet the geneal WP:N requirement. DGG (talk) 18:04, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Pardis_Sabeti Dimdamdocdim (talk) 21:35, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

She's one of the top 100 living geniuses according to the Daily Telegraph (see links)... if that isn't notability, I don't know what is! (Previous unsigned comment made at 05:51, 13 February 2008 140.180.8.29 (princeton.edu ip))

Its not the daily telegraph, but a list compiled by 6 members of a consulting firm which was picked up on the telegraph website, so that doesn't say too much. 76.24.31.136 (talk) 03:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I guess that proves my point, she is ludicrously over promoted, the picture of her at the world economic forum is more of the same - the fact that she accepted an invitation to the WEF demonstrates the point beyond doubt. Take it from someone familiar with applied statistics, she is not a genius. She has made a small and rather mediocre contribution, which has been heavily promoted because of the people she works with and the topical application. To describe her as one of the top 100 living geniuses is absurd as anyone with the slightest familiarity with the breadth and complexity of natural science and mathematics could testify Dimdamdocdim (talk) 11:44, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I just read her editorial in the NEJM. Daily JP, Sabeti P., A malaria fingerprint in the human genome? N Engl J Med. 2008 Apr 24;358(17):1855-6.

She's hot. Nbauman (talk)