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A master thesis is not a PhD.
by mgaunard 5y ago
A master thesis is not a PhD.
- froh 5y agoWhile technically correct how does that relate to the dialogue above? A PhD is even deeper work in a niche topic than a masters, right however that doesn't contradict that the niche know how may become useful later.
- CamperBob2 5y agoIf it's far enough ahead of its time, I suppose it might earn you an honorary doctorate someplace. Sore subject, huh.
- pjmlp 5y agoWhile true, in Portugal it used to be so that a master degree was a requirement for a PhD, unless one was a prodigy child. I suspect the same happens in many other countries. So it already puts one above everyone else that has a classical university degree.
- jacquesm 5y agoWhich GP did not claim it was. Also: besides being pedantic this comment mostly seems to be to put the writer down in some way, so applying the principle of charity here, what did you want to achieve with your comment?
- la_fayette 5y agoThere are outstanding master thesis, which introduced quite revolutionary concepts or algorithms. E.g., John Canny developed the canny edge detector within his master thesis. There are of course other examples...
- fivea 5y agoOne outstanding example is not much in the way of a proof. A masters thesis is a few month's work from an untrained student going through an idea that's already being explored by the school's research group. A PhD typically involves far more deep independent work that's deemed relevant by at least one research institution.
- rowanG077 5y agoI don't know what you need to be huffing to consider a master student at the final stages "untrained". A master is basically the highest form of schooling there is.
- Beldin 5y ago... except for a PhD. A master's is typically an admission requirement to a PhD - at least, around here. In my experience, a master student's final project typically constitute their first foray into / encounter with academic research. So yes, untrained in that sense.
- rowanG077 5y agoPhD is not schooling. It's a research job. You get paid to do a PhD.
- Beldin 5y agoAround here, a training and education plan is required. Some institutions have a requirement on ECTS or another form of "study points" a PhD student must have gathered before defence. The fact that you are paid doesn't preclude it being a traineeship.
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- fivea 5y ago> PhD is not schooling. It's a research job. You get paid to do a PhD. No not really. A PhD student at most receives a scholarship, and currently at least in Europe has to undergo a curricular part comprised of a dozen or so courses. How does that not count as schooling? If I'm not mistaken the only exception to the schooling requirement is if a student is able to publish a few research papers on a topic that are coherent and related to a concrete research topic that could support their thesis.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoI think that Adobe Photoshop started as Tom Knoll’s masters thesis. It might have been his Ph.D thesis. Not sure. I saw it demoed in Ann Arbor, back in ‘89, or so; before Adobe brought it. It was introduced as “A friend’s masters thesis.”
- fm2606 5y agoWell.. https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/i-couldnt-believe-it-university-of-pretoria-student-submits-masters-thesis-gets-phd-instead-20211002#:~:text=University%20of%20Pretoria%20master's%20student,earned%20him%20a%20higher%20qualification https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/i-couldnt-bel....
- jsemrau 5y agoYou point being?
- mgaunard 5y agoA master's is useful, a PhD is not. Somehow that flew over most of the people replying to me, who thought I was implying that a master thesis is inferior to a PhD thesis. Probably projecting their own insecurities.
- samch93 5y agoDo you know about Claude Shannon's Master thesis?