Why a PhD?
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Anonymous
| What are you going to do with it? Will you need it in ten years? |
Anonymous
| Teach. My DD is getting one now at Oxford, will go to law school and hoped to teach law. |
Anonymous
| My kid is doing pharma research with bio engineering phd |
Anonymous
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Will teaching law be done via AI?
Will AI do the pharma research? |
Anonymous
| You get a PhD if you are interested in scientific research of any kind; to be a professor; for certain jobs. For example, most World Bank and IMF senior staff have PhDs in economics. You need one in psychology to be a psychotherapist. I could go on, but that’ll give you an idea |
Anonymous
| And yes, the need for a PhD won’t disappear in 10 years. You’ll always need one for certain jobs. Scholarship and research are also how our collective knowledge base slowly expands. |
Anonymous
| To be smarter than you |
Anonymous
| If you have no idea why one is valuable for the love of god dont take up space getting one. |
Anonymous
+100 |
Anonymous
Yes |
Anonymous
| Flexibility: Patient care, teaching, research, consulting. In 10 years, I’ll still appreciate the experiences that I went through and the skills that give me a grounding in my profession that people with masters level degrees in my field are less likely to have. |
Anonymous
There are what people call drive-up (or drive-by which btw sounds odd, so drive-up) doctorate programs, e.g. EdD in supervision/leadership or something like that |
Anonymous
| You get a PhD if you can't live without doing research. |
Anonymous
How about drive-through? |
Anonymous
Most of what good law schools teach isn’t “here’s what the law says” but rather how to think critically about the law. AI can effectively research the law but it does not think critically at all. |