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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - I'll step back to the "generic" PhD vs Law school comparison.  Going to Law school, like undergrad, like business school, like high school (and like the masters portion of a PhD program or a stand alone masters program) - where you go to class and are expected to learn something and then show you learned it by taking tests or applying a technique.  Getting a Phd - you learn the basics but the entire goal is to produce NEW material that is a contribution to the literature (or whatever) in your field.  It's not regurgitation of some other stuff people have told you - it's taking what is already out there and finding some thing new.

Hopefully this explains how it is different.  If you want to practice law, go to law school. If you want to go into business consider business school. If you want to be a research scientist...go to grad school in a lab science.... But if you were to go to grad school in the lab science, you'd probably find the universities with the top researchers in the specific sub field you want to eventually work in.  It's not some generic lab science PHD....who your dissertation advisor is and their lab work will guide what you specialize in.  You need to know what you are interested in achieving when you go to grad school.[/quote]

A 50 page law paper, say, goes pretty much into the recycle bin after it's graded.  The Ph.D. dissertation is archived and indexed as it advances knowledge in the field.[/quote]

Yes it’s archived, & is SUPPOSED to advance the field. But a lot of those dissertations are about education, & schools have only gotten worse. And some are about psychology, & people have only gotten more screwed up. Some are about sociology but society has only gotten more cruel. Poli Sci>>more division.

Granted, the gaming scholars have managed to devise more addictive games, & pharmaceutical scholars have devised more addictive drugs. And AI scholars have probably doomed us all. So hurray for being a zoned-out 20 year old playing video games in your parents’ basement, waiting for AI to take over your life: you are the culmination of thousands of years of human struggle!![/quote]

Great rebuttal.[/quote]

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