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You can't quantify success in a PhD with a single variable. Of course, but I'd bet the farm there's a very strong correlation!
by trentnix 4y ago
You can't quantify success in a PhD with a single variable.
Of course, but I'd bet the farm there's a very strong correlation!
- a123b456c 4y agoI have 20+ years experience in academic research. Connections and hustle are very strong predictors of success. Test scores do indicate ability, and ability is helpful but far from sufficient.
- sinuhe69 4y agoCan you clarify for me, a non-native speaker, what you mean with hustle here? Energetic activities or fraud? (I guess the first, but I also heard of a lot of academic frauds)
- ramraj07 4y agoConnections and hustle are stuff you can learn. At least enough to become a professor. Most of my nerd friends who became professors learned these during their PhDs. I didn’t say they became famous professors just folks doing decent research in different corners of academia. I’ll still get my house in the subject GRE as the single most important metric if I were to choose a grad student. Not that I’m in that game anymore of course.