Encourage your student to work with his colleagues (Shifty)
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From: Work with your Shifty Student
Thinking together is often more productive than thinking separately. At least, as long as they don't squabble.
Game Instructions: This will produce Research. The larger your lab and the better the student, the more Research will result.
Unlocked with 
Experimental Object, 
Number of Workers in your Laboratory 2
Challenge information
Broad, 
Persuasive 215
- 147 - very chancy (41%)
- 183 - chancy (51%)
- 219 - modest (61%)
- 255 - very modest (71%)
- 291 - low-risk (81%)
- 327 - straightforward (91%)
- 359 - straightforward (100%)
Challenge is not affected by 
Research Preparations
Success
Positive working relationships
You encourage him to trade ideas, think through problems collectively, collaborate. At first he does not seem terribly interested […] He complains about not being heard. He grumbles about not receiving adequate credit. But eventually, he softens up.
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Persuasive is increasing…
You've gained 2 × (
Student level + 
Number of Workers in your Laboratory) x Laboratory Research
Rare Success
Papers covered with novel theories
You step away from the lab for an hour or two. When you come back, the Shifty Student is huddled with the others, drafting up a detailed set of notes. It is inventive, peculiar, and very novel.
- Persuasive is increasing…
- You've gained 3 × ( Student level + Number of Workers in your Laboratory) x Laboratory Research
Failure
Yawns, candied mushrooms
You urge your Shifty Student to work with his colleagues. He does not seem very interested. […] He refers to them as dull. The next day, you find him at the back of the workshop, […] with the crystallised residue of a candied toadstool on his cheeks.
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- Persuasive is increasing…
- You've gained ( Student level + Number of Workers in your Laboratory) x Laboratory Research
