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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For example:

Why is an Education Ph.D NOT as respected compared to a Biomedical Ph.D?

Or a History Ph.D compared to a psychology PH.D?

People tend to be more impressed with someone who has a heavy science

PH.D compared to social science of humanities one. Why?..

is it because anyone in heavy science can do a humanities one or social science one 
yet the ones in the softer or humanities one can’t do a heavy Ph.D?
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Because PhDs in the hard sciences requires literally inventing or discovering something new.  It has to be novel.  It's a really hard, tedious, and time consuming thing to do.  I have a PhD in engineering.  It was difficult when your 1000x experiment fails and you have to still keep picking yourself up off the ground and keep trying.  [/quote]

? You don’t know what a dissertation in a social science or the humanities looks like, do you?  The whole point is ‘contributing something new’ and that’s ‘hard’ no matter what field you’re in. [/quote]

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