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Significant swaths of Ph.D students would abandon all of their scholarly endeavors if they could go bar hopping and be pick-up artists. "Female students not hu

Significant swaths of Ph.D students would abandon all of their scholarly endeavors if they could go bar hopping and be pick-up artists. "Female students not hunting for Ph.D students" is evidence that, especially for men, getting lots of education is straight up "unattractive". Why should I even want a Ph.d if all it signals to the other sex is that I'm not just a nerd, but a nerd with a poor ability to calculate ROI. At least a lot of the "jocks" ended up with a good ROI job in finance that they got from their frat brothers rich dad.

fwip 3y ago
> Why should I even want a Ph.d if... I dunno dude, why do you do literally anything in life? Surely your life doesn't revolve around finding a wife.
linguae 3y ago
Earning a PhD is about showing employers that you are capable of producing novel research results. You should earn a PhD because you are interested in deeply investigating a research problem, and also because you are interested in pursuing a career in research despite the uncertainties that entails, particularly the competition for academic positions and the trend in industry away from unfettered research and toward business-driven research. If you cannot live with the uncertainty that a research career entails, and if you feel that earning a PhD is a relationship/sexual repellant, then you should consider another career path. Besides, a PhD didn’t stop Oppenheimer and Feynman.