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scut work - trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores; "the hospital hired him to do scut work"

chore, job, task - a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"

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As much as 80 percent of the time spent on today's predictive models goes to the "scut work" of making the data presentable, said Nigam Shah, an associate professor at Stanford University, who co-authored Google's research paper, published in the journal Nature.

Google is training machines to predict when a patient will die

A literature faculty member who joined our department in the 1990s, Linda Karell described her perception of teaching writing, and by connection the Writing Center, as "the scut work that you did so that you could do your real work, which was teaching literature" (personal communication, January 19, 2015).

Looking up: Mapping writing center work through institutional ethnography

The scut work of newspaper reporters, especially those on the first rungs of their careers, is usually not portrayed in fiction any better than the real work of private detectives, but de Mariaffi is pitch perfect at capturing the attitudes, the process, the smell of the stale coffee, and the otherworldliness of late hours in the newspaper's morgue.

Elisabeth de Mariaffi. The Devil You Know

As the Ninth Seat she was probably bringing in the coffee and doing the scut work but it is another link to be exploited.

The taming of Lalit Modi

In the past two decades, these chores have been replaced by a new kind of scut work: treating a large number of patients (to help maintain hospital"throughput") while juggling an expanding load of administrative chores.

The Problem With Medical Internships

If AI tools do some of the scut work involved in analyzing data, he says, people can be "free to work at the top of their game."

Who will own the robots? We're in the midst of a jobs crisis, and rapid advances in Al and other technologies may be one culprit. How can we get better at sharing the wealth that technology creates?

excessive workload including unnecessary scut work) and the assignment of inappropriate tasks (e.g.

STUDENT'S PERCEPTION OF LABOR ROOM LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

In the hospital, our tasks include, but are not limited to: interviewing and examining patients, writing on charts, reading up on our cases, racking our brain for the correct diagnoses and best possible treatments, monitoring each of our patients anywhere from every 15 minutes to every four hours (taking the blood pressure, heart rate, breathing rate, temperature, and anything else deemed necessary), extracting blood, inserting IV cannulas, doing scut work, reassuring and/or comforting relatives, accomplishing paperwork, and answering to our seniors.

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