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I would say if you have space faring society and you put them on star ships like the Enterprise, you put those Phds on the super expensive ships. In the "Star
by ozim 5y ago
I would say if you have space faring society and you put them on star ships like the Enterprise, you put those Phds on the super expensive ships.
In the "Star Trek" you don't see broad society, sometimes you see normal people, but series is mostly officers.
You don't want Phds only society because that is a lot of waste. From my point of view bachelors or engineering degree is mostly what will be needed in the future.
Because for me Phds are mostly on thought level of someone who has done bachelor. Staying in academia is a career choice and not that you are chosen to become Phd because you were super smarter than others. It also turns out that to be successful Phd it is more about politics at the university that "beeing ultra smart". True that you still have to be smart to play politics but don't have to point fingers at stupid politicians that handle that as well without having even masters degree.
- prewett 5y agoPh.D.'s are not just bachelor-level. A Ph.D. teaches you the ability to learn to become an expert. A bachelor's teaches you how the field thinks, which is not the same thing. I tried doing research for my Master's, it was (in retrospect) total amateur hour. My professor suggested I write a summary paper of the literature the next semester, and I learned how I didn't know a thing. Recently I've noticed that my dad (Ph.D.) goes about learning things completely differently than me; I just bumble around and read stuff, he figures out who the important people are and reads that (among other things).
- ozim 5y agoHow it is different from what I described as a career choice? I chose career in building web applications, this is what I am proficient at and I learned it on the job/on my own. If I would choose to follow Ph.D. I would optimize different things just like your father. Well I believe your father is not proficient at building web applications and I don't think he could be as proficient as me in 6 months. The same for other things I could not become professional football player in 6 months or conduct research in proficient way.