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What utter rubbish. I know several people with two PhDs - for example one guy who went from theoretical physics to economics - and they are all humble and brill
by laingc 7y ago
What utter rubbish. I know several people with two PhDs - for example one guy who went from theoretical physics to economics - and they are all humble and brilliant.
If I didn't have a family to support and a mortgage to pay, I'd consider doing a second PhD, given how much I enjoyed my first.
- non-entity 7y agoI dont have a family or mortgage and cant fathom affording top PhDs.
- VHRanger 7y agoI imagine you're talking about a specific econometrics professor at McGill? I'd say he's extremely unique, it's far from the typical.
- laingc 7y agoNo, a former Ukrainian colleague of mine from Germany. I also just had a double PhD apply for a job with me - one PhD in stochastic differential equations, one in machine learning. It’s rare, for sure, but not unique.
- jerrya 7y agoIn High School, I went to a summer chemistry program. One professor had 23 degrees, for real, ranging from chemistry to religion. I don't know if he had more than one Ph.D. But when I got to college, one of my professors had been this first guy's student, and one of my other professors had been the second professor's student. fwiw...