Why Being a Research Assistant Sometimes Sucks

This post could be alternative titled "Why Being a Professor Sometimes Rules". From an interesting paper (pdf) I've been reading:

Two hundred and forty-three introductory psychology students at the University of Virginia volunteered for a study entitled “Choosing College Courses.”

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Their responses were later coded by a research assistant who was unaware of the subjects' condition. She assigned subjects a 1 for each piece of information recalled correctly, a 0 for each piece not recalled, and a -1 for each piece recalled incorrectly. One of the authors also coded the recall questionnaires of 7 subjects; his codings agreed with the research assistant's 94% of the time.

The research assistant had to do almost 35 times more grunt work than the professor. I wish I had a research assistant.