The schools exacerbate this because the professors themselves have such survivorship bias. I once had a professor try to convince me to go for a bio phd. I obj

The schools exacerbate this because the professors themselves have such survivorship bias. I once had a professor try to convince me to go for a bio phd. I objected that there's only one TT position for every 20 graduates. His response was that it's just about hard work - look at him, for example! He didn't get my point; I didn't get the phd.