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Everyone is responsible for their own stupid decisions and we should laugh and throw rocks at Woke PhDs on welfare.
But let's not forget how the boomers royally fucked over their juniors. Do you know the surest sign of a bubble? FRAUD.
Remember the recession? I do, since it happened right when I was entering college. One of the big things that tipped off Burry and other autistics was fraud in the mortgage market.
The PhD is the same: everyone lied to the recent buy-ins about their likelihood of success.
I interviewed at five different graduate schools when I was looking into PhD programs. 4 out of 5 directly and blatantly lied about their placement rates.
It was hard to figure this out because it wasn't on their website; I had to look up all the school's completed dissertations
Why would they do this? Well, professors want grad students for several reasons: teach more courses, get more students, grow the dept, get more funding, etc.
So many completely hoodwink students into signing into PhD
It keeps getting worse. Two years ago I interviewed for a job at a mediocre university that created a _new_ PhD program. There are already no jobs, and they created a new PhD
But let's not forget how the boomers royally fucked over their juniors. Do you know the surest sign of a bubble? FRAUD.
Can you imagine getting a PhD and being unemployed? I\u2019d be pissed, bitter, angry at the world. I would spend my time convincing others to feel the same way.
— FURU\u2019R\u2019F\u2019 (@1withdirt) January 16, 2021
Remember the recession? I do, since it happened right when I was entering college. One of the big things that tipped off Burry and other autistics was fraud in the mortgage market.
The PhD is the same: everyone lied to the recent buy-ins about their likelihood of success.
I interviewed at five different graduate schools when I was looking into PhD programs. 4 out of 5 directly and blatantly lied about their placement rates.
It was hard to figure this out because it wasn't on their website; I had to look up all the school's completed dissertations
Why would they do this? Well, professors want grad students for several reasons: teach more courses, get more students, grow the dept, get more funding, etc.
So many completely hoodwink students into signing into PhD
When I was working on my PhD our department brought in an outside group to evaluate the department and it was recommended they scrap the grad program. Advice was rejected because would result in faculty positions lost. So they keep churning them out.
— Max Castle, deposed former president (@realMaxCastle) January 15, 2021
It keeps getting worse. Two years ago I interviewed for a job at a mediocre university that created a _new_ PhD program. There are already no jobs, and they created a new PhD
I bombed a Skype interview two years ago because I said, "you _created_ a new PhD program?" Turns out it's nice to vote yourself RAs who will have terrible job prospects. Little sign of slowing, except for a few departments that took covid breaks.
— Evil (Political) Scientist (@knrd_z) January 15, 2021