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To further clarify: The teacher is considered the "parent" of the student in their analysis.
by im4w1l 10y ago
To further clarify: The teacher is considered the "parent" of the student in their analysis.
- mysterypie 10y agoThe result is therefore quite boring. It's like saying famous actors have worked with other famous actors, and lots of actors can thereby trace their themselves through a chain of actors back to Charlie Chaplin. (Too bad it wasn't about genetics -- now that would have been interesting.)
- beagle3 10y agoA teacher/mentor is not the same as "worked with". When Kevin Bacon appears in a film with X, who is the master, and who is the student?
- posterboy 10y agoObviously, Kevin Bacon is the root node of the graph, or rather the producer with the necessary vitamin C. I also felt reminded of the Five Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
- xapata 10y agoThe relationship between PhD student and advisor is often much more like apprentice and master than the relationship between two actors/actresses working together.
- jamestnz 10y agoIndeed, perhaps a more apt analogy from acting would be the many famous actors who trained under Lee Strasberg (Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, James Dean, Jane Fonda, Paul Newman, Ellen Burstyn and others). Strasberg in turn was a student of the ideas of Konstantin Stanislavski[1]. And so it goes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting
- tgb 10y agoIn particular, one rarely has more than one advisor, perhaps two in some circumstances.
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- dmichulke 10y agoHaving worked with is a 1:n relationship Having an advisor is 1:1 (with a few exceptions like 2 PhDs or 2 advisors for one PhD)