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What do her parents do?

I know you're asking this to try to downplay her remarkable achievements. But her parent is a single mother [1] who's an insurance agent [2].

[1] https://wsspaper.com/65234/news/qa-with-science-talent-searc...

[2] https://dailyiowan.com/2020/11/18/iowa-city-west-senior-dasi...

The whole affair seems to be politicized too much to not question the truthfulness of the claims presented as facts.

Also, pH-sensitive dyed wound dressings have been in development for at least a decade by now, at the Fraunhofer institute[1] in Germany.

[1]https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2010/11/dre...

> The whole affair seems to be politicized too much to not question the truthfulness of the claims presented as facts.

Do you realise your comment sounds a lot like, 'she only got this far because she's a young black woman'?

can you explain to me what it means to be politicized, and which claims you find questionable?

Really the question is how did she do that? If she had parents in the field (probably a common scenario), we don't need to know much more. If it's something else, then we can ask if those conditions can be generalized.

Her parent is a single mother, insurance agent.

How do you know the question is intended to downplay her remarkable achievements? I first interpreted the question along the lines of Mozart or Tiger Woods and didn't think about it uncharitably until you brought it up.

I took the question as "thats impressive for someone this young, are her parents in related fields so shes been exposed to this stuff or is it all self guided?"