> In 2022, evaluating original research is harder than ever, due to hyperspecialization. For a typical Ph.D. thesis, there are less than five people in the worl

> In 2022, evaluating original research is harder than ever, due to hyperspecialization. For a typical Ph.D. thesis, there are less than five people in the world qualified to evaluate whether it's worthy of a tenure-track position. That's simply not true for a typical PhD thesis at all. It certainly doesn't jive with my own experience, so I'd like to cough up a few examples please. (Do hyperspecialized PhD theses like the one you describe exist? Certainly! But I refute the idea that such these are typical.)