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They sure do. Here is Freeman Dyson; the Physicist without a PhD ( https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-puzzle-worthy-of-freeman-dyson-20140326/ https://www.q
by rramadass 6y ago
They sure do.
Here is Freeman Dyson; the Physicist without a PhD ( https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-puzzle-worthy-of-freeman-dyson-20140326/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-math-puzzle-worthy-of-freem... );
Oh, yes. I’m very proud of not having a Ph.D. I think the Ph.D. system is an abomination. It was invented as a system for educating German professors in the 19th century, and it works well under those conditions. It’s good for a very small number of people who are going to spend their lives being professors. But it has become now a kind of union card that you have to have in order to have a job, whether it’s being a professor or other things, and it’s quite inappropriate for that. It forces people to waste years and years of their lives sort of pretending to do research for which they’re not at all well-suited. In the end, they have this piece of paper which says they’re qualified, but it really doesn’t mean anything.
- PopeDotNinja 6y agoMy friend once said: - B.S. = bull shit - M.S. = more shit - PhD = piled higher & deeper
- Judgmentality 6y agoAnd HBS is 2/3 BS.
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- jayjohn436 6y agoPermanent Head Damage is what my advisor would tell me ;)
- PopeDotNinja 6y agoGrad school was described to me as a self induced neurosis.
- blue_potato 6y agoSinful
- krelian 6y agoOpened his Wikipedia page out of curiosity and what do you know, some climate change denier decided that his ideas about CO2 level and their effects on climate deserve to be in the opening section.
- Laakeri 6y agoI don't get it. Isn't it well-known that PhD makes only sense for people who want career in research? In this case, why "wasting years and years" doing research would be a waste of time?
- skrebbel 6y agoMy wife is an organic chemist by education and for every R&D job she applied to, there were tens to hundreds of applicants with PhDs. Having "only" a Master's degree, she had no chance. Pretty much all her college friends went to do a PhD, just so they could get a job. She's a happy software tester now :-)
- Laakeri 6y agoIs there something wrong in this? Better qualified candidates were preferred for a research job. Of course, if you argue that the job didn't actually require PhD-level knowledge/experience, then the problem is in oversaturated job market of the field, not in the PhD system.
- easytiger 6y agoI've worked at a software company that received significant local government funding predicated on certain goals. One of those was hire X number of PhD graduates from the two local universities at a (relatively large) minimum salary. This then means the universities could say that a PhD from their various disciplines practically guarantees you a well paid job. Unfortunately there was a huge gap in what was expected of these people and what they could actually do. Save but a few they were pretty awful employees for the job. Not necessarily their fault, but it's one example of the gamification of the system.
- skrebbel 6y agoYou asked "Isn't it well-known that PhD makes only sense for people who want career in research?" and I answered with a counterexample. There are many places where a PhD makes sense for a career in industry. And if you think an oversaturated job market pushing people into doing PhD's they don't need for the actual job isn't a problem for "the PhD system" then I call you short sighted.