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WTF has happened to this forum?
WTF has happened to this forum?
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Must be pretty smart to get PhD in 6 years....It is amazing how confident ignorant people are.
Many a true word is spoken in jest
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It depends where and how hard you study.Must be pretty smart to get PhD in 6 years....
It took me 6 just to get a master....
I call this BS! ; )
It is an internet meme, but IME clever people are rarely boring.That Frank Swain guy is most probably a boring person though.
It is amazing how confident ignorant people are.
Many a true word is spoken in jest
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It is an internet meme, but IME clever people are rarely boring.
Ineresting. Usually it's undergrad (4 years) --> Masters (1-1/2 - 2 years) --> PhD (depends on how many years you want to avoid getting a job ;-) )It depends where and how hard you study.
A PhD in 6 years was the normal target when I went to University, mind you the system here has changed enormously since then.
The University I went to was very hard to get into and if you got good grades you kept your place and got a degree in 3 years. If you failed a single end of year exam from any of your courses you were thrown out, although if the failure was minor and all the other results were good they may let you to repeat the whole year and re-study all the courses, so it is then a 4-year course. About 40% of the students who started with me got thrown out.Ineresting. Usually it's undergrad (4 years) --> Masters (1-1/2 - 2 years) --> PhD (depends on how many years you want to avoid getting a job ;-) )
In my day it was 3 years for a Bachelor's degrees and a further 1 Year for a masters and/or 3 years for a PhD. A few people started on a Masters, then found they had enough material to convert it to a PhD, most went directly into either a Masters or a PhD.The University I went to was very hard to get into and if you got good grades you kept your place and got a degree in 3 years. If you failed a single end of year exam from any of your courses you were thrown out, although if the failure was minor and all the other results were good they may let you to repeat the whole year and re-study all the courses, so it is then a 4-year course. About 40% of the students who started with me got thrown out.
If you were going to do a PhD you usually did so without a Master's first, but not always. As you write it was a way of avoiding getting a job for some.
It is amazing how confident ignorant people are.
Many a true word is spoken in jest
Conversely, it also means that those without credentials or authority cannot be dismissed simply because of their lack of authority or credentials.
I believe the OP alludes to the more common response from the genuinely ignorant to an expert analysis: they (the innumerate) and only they have discovered an error that everyone else somehow missed.
Not sure what the reply of "bullshit" in the text was meant to refer to, but it probably referred to the position that nobody gets a free pass simply because of their credentials. Regardless of your station in life or your authority, every person needs to support his positions -- there is no fast-track, ez-pass given. Conversely, it also means that those without credentials or authority cannot be dismissed simply because of their lack of authority or credentials.