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The number of new PhDs in the US ballooned in the 1960s. It went from 4.9 new PhDs / 100k people in 1960 to 14.5 in 1970 and 17.1 in 2024. While the growth in
by jltsiren 1y ago
The number of new PhDs in the US ballooned in the 1960s. It went from 4.9 new PhDs / 100k people in 1960 to 14.5 in 1970 and 17.1 in 2024.
While the growth in the number of new PhDs has been modest, the number of published papers has grown much faster. I would attribute that to changes in administrative culture. Both the government and the universities have become driven by metrics, which means everyone must produce something the administrators can measure.
- bonoboTP 1y agoI would imagine there is more recent ballooning in AI topics, which was the focus of the article. Based on the growth of the flagship conferences it's quite evident that it's not just exponentially more frequent paper submissions but indeed more exponentially more PhD students submitting. (I mean ML/AI/NLP/vision conferences over the last ~15 years).