> plenty of people who came out of their masters / PhD spouting stuff like this. This is a good point, but I think it speaks more to the degradation of the PhD

> plenty of people who came out of their masters / PhD spouting stuff like this. This is a good point, but I think it speaks more to the degradation of the PhD as a signal, due to universities disproportionately caring about graduation rates and pushing unqualified students through the system.