1 min lesson
Experimental design and rigor
Recall the main items in "Experimental design and rigor", then connect each one to the work.
Step 1 of 3
Cursor screens hard for truth-seeking: caring more about what's true than about being right. Experimental rigor is where that trait becomes operational and it's the easiest place to lose a research deep-dive if your conclusions don't hold up under questioning.
The deep-dive round is you presenting prior work and defending the decisions under pressure. The paid practical onsite is you running a real experiment and reasoning about noisy metrics live. Both reward the same habits: isolate variables, quantify uncertainty and predeclare what would prove you wrong.