Addendum addendum.

Years ago my one (straight) (white) colleague who's into BDSM told me that his supervisor was discussing his dissertation project well after completion, and he said something about how it should have been done a whole different way, something along the lines of, "You know, we really should have done X, Y, and Z during data collection and analysis."

And, my colleague said he just sat there and thought to himself, "Ok, fine, maybe, but why didn't we have those conversations during the initial planning stages, instead of after years of work had been put in?". But, he bit his tongue, even as he just shook his head at how wacky it was.

He's worked in similarly-skilled jobs in the federal government (I think), too, and he said that you just don't see that blithe lack of common sense and lack of basic planning like you do in academia among the tenured.