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it totally depends on the advisor. I've definitely heard stories similar to the TFA from people in multiple disciplines and from multiple schools. I'd say that
by stevenbedrick 14y ago
it totally depends on the advisor. I've definitely heard stories similar to the TFA from people in multiple disciplines and from multiple schools. I'd say that it's less common of an attitude than it might have been thirty years ago, but that it is far from extinct.
- SeanLuke 14y agoI guess so, but it was the "communications skills" thing that rang the bias alarm bell. Communications skills are extraordinarily valuable to a Ph.D.: you have to be able to write, to present, to defend a thesis, and so on. Absolutely everyone knows this. And yet multiple schools told him communications skills were a negative?
- sesqu 14y agoIt was fairly apparent to me that these quotes were exaggerated for comedic effect.