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The PhD is irrelevant. What is relevant is the experience of doing science in a rigorous fashion. Today's "data scientist in a box" lessons don't give people
by battlebot 10y ago
The PhD is irrelevant. What is relevant is the experience of doing science in a rigorous fashion. Today's "data scientist in a box" lessons don't give people the basic understanding of how to approach a problem or even what a null hypothesis is. Some of the videos on Youtube make it seem like any correlation is relevant when they don't even know what they don't know.
- emmanuel_1234 10y agoI can't agree more: PhD shows that you went through the pain of scientific training, you can however train yourself to science in different manners. Start from the start though: epistemology is grossly underrated, but the scientific method (aka: calling bullshit) is my most valuable tool.