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Newsflash. Most graduate research is worth nothing. If this helps graduate students to re-evaluate and start doing things that can generate income while being i
by wanderingmind 6d ago
Newsflash. Most graduate research is worth nothing. If this helps graduate students to re-evaluate and start doing things that can generate income while being intellectually stimulating, it's a net win for the person and the economy
- pks016 6d agoI mean it is. Most of the time in graduate school, you're getting trained and learning to do reasearch. People rarely produce great work during graduate school. Only towards the end of their degree or start of new position (post doc, independent researcher, or assistant professor), you start seeing good work. And for a professor, most of their research is done by graduate students. Academia has it's own sets of big problems. Before this AI boom also, most people graduating never stayed in academia. The way graduate schools are structured, I would be happy if few people joined. That would also mean we lose good researchers in a long run.