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Why do you consider asking for advice as a bad thing or being inferior? Every PhD knows that if you don't know something, you ask somebody that does. Collaborat
by foepys 9y ago
Why do you consider asking for advice as a bad thing or being inferior? Every PhD knows that if you don't know something, you ask somebody that does. Collaborating is a huge part of academia. If you think you are better than a PhD just because they ask you stuff, you are definitely wrong.
You seem to have a completely wrong understanding about why people do a PhD. They (okay, most) don't do it to attach a title to their name but because they are passionate about a specific field and want to expand their and other's knowledge about it.
- rpiguy 9y agoOr because they are more interested in theoretical application rather than practical application. PhDs are where you explore questions that have unknown market value. This is often interpreted as, "you can't hack it in the real world, so you hide in academia," and in some cases that is true. But really it has more to do with what problems you are interested in solving/exploring.