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Of course, it depends entirely on your cohort/field. My point was that it's extremely common for PhD students to just go through the motions and pretend to be d
by AussieWog93 6y ago
Of course, it depends entirely on your cohort/field.
My point was that it's extremely common for PhD students to just go through the motions and pretend to be doing impactful work.
There is at best a tacit approval of treating your studies as "pretend research".
At worst, depending on how the grants/scholarships are doled out and the personality of the supervisor, there is active pressure to go down a certain path that both you and your supervisor know will not produce impactful research but instead maximise your probability of publishing a "passable" thesis.
This is not in Lesbian Dance Theory, this is in the Faculty of Engineering at a top-ranked university in Australia.
- dasudasu 6y agoAs a reviewer, it’s when you see one of those papers where the impact is not so clear, and at best is extremely incremental or just a slightly different take on something that has already been done. You can tell a grad student spent a lot of effort to come up with this. If you reject it, you’re just going to make his/her graduation that much harder. It’s like looking at a very involved homework. The alternative is to gatekeep the field a lot more and make people drop from their PhD midway through.
- _jal 6y ago> My point was that it's extremely common for PhD students to just go through the motions I think you misspelled 'human'. Of course people do that. And of course there are places to 'practice pretend research' - we've just spent multiple generations flipping universities into something much closer to businesses. Business caters to customers, what do you expect them to do?
- rjsw 6y agoI know of a recent Engineering PhD that "discovers" stuff that is already in an international standard, it looks like just going through the motions to me.