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It looks to me like the study cited previously addresses your point by asking students whether or not they'd like to gave an academic position: "When asked to
by bcbrown 14y ago
It looks to me like the study cited previously addresses your point by asking students whether or not they'd like to gave an academic position:
"When asked to ignore actual job availability and rate a range of careers, only about 50 percent gave an academic research career the highest rating; more than 40 percent gave top marks to research jobs in the private sector, while about 30 percent thought working for a startup would be pretty great."
- scott_s 14y agoI don't think that covers it. When people are forced down a path, they find ways to rationalize why it's better than the alternatives. That is, you can't just ask someone to ignore job availability and expect that their view of the job actually does ignore job availability. Their view of the job probably has it already baked in. Self-evaluating a cognitive bias is hard.