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Article cites one hard number: >Global figures are hard to come by, but only three or four in every hundred PhD students in the United Kingdom will land a perm
by aqsalose 9y ago
Article cites one hard number:
>Global figures are hard to come by, but only three or four in every hundred PhD students in the United Kingdom will land a permanent staff position at a university. It’s only a little better in the United States.
- harry8 9y agoBut I claim that number is really pi (or tau/2 if you must). Will you take theirs one rather than mine as an argument from authority? This is Nature, not the damn daily mail. Digital extraction required![1] [1] Vernacular expression "Pull your finger out!" Meaning to stop being lazy.[2] [2] Jokes you have to explain, suck.[2] [3] People who put footnotes on their jokes are terrible human beings.[4] [4] There is no [4][5] [5] citation needed