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Expect a sweep of middle-aged professors doing PhDs with their mates supervising and examining.
by hessenwolf 12y ago
Expect a sweep of middle-aged professors doing PhDs with their mates supervising and examining.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoNo, why would they bother? Once you are famous/established, no one cares what your credentials are...the PhD only gets the foot in door, and is a useless piece of paper otherwise beyond what you learnt while getting it (disclosure: a PhD whose piece of paper helped him get his foot in the door of a research lab).
- hessenwolf 12y agoIt happened at my university (and I did some moonlighting contracting statistical analyses for some). The salary rules changed to motivate them.
- dagw 12y agoMany universities have rules limiting pay and promotion opportunities to people without PhDs.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoMaybe at the low end, but definitely not at the high end. As long as they can easily get a position at CMU or Stanford, the university isn't going to low ball them on pay.
- carbocation 12y agoCrazily, depending on field, it seems to be an issue even at the high end (see my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9144856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9144856 ), though my comment is not specifically about CS.
- carbocation 12y agoThe most mathematically capable geneticists I've ever met (he's at Harvard) was in the same position. PhD-less, was doing great work without it, but ultimately got one at the encouragement of his colleagues. This was gilding the lilly, intellectually, but thanks to rules arcana, probably helpful for career advancement.