ABD stands for "All but Dissertation". This raises an interesting question: what is intelligence? A cursory Google search shows there's no solid consensus in academia. Having said that, there was a symposium years ago in which thirteen leading psychologists proposed definitions. While Ph. Some Ph. This seems opposite in some ways to the qualities of practical sense, judgement and planning ability that characterize intelligence.
It's mostly that the lower bound to get a PhD at least in a non-imaginary field is higher than to merely get an SB. If you assume a non-pessimal distribution[1], the average pHD will be smarter than the average SB. Probably true of English, Political Science, etc. Getting paid more in a job is about providing more value to your employer.
Getting an advanced degree is about test taking, writing papers, and research. They are not necessarily correlated. This is akin to wondering why excelling at juggling doesn't make you more money in a programming job.
Juggling just doesn't add more value to that particular job. A lot of times it is just "paying fees". I must agree, I am a Computer Science graduate student and one thing I have noticed is that the only courses that always run out of registrations within a minute literally of registration open are the ones in which the Professor is known to hand out A grades to almost everyone who takes up his course.
Needless to say many students graduate with high GPA scores. At least in this case, its just "paying fees". Programs differ. I'm a CS grad student PhD and it seems like most people don't even bother registering at all until a month before class or so. No one cares about class all that much and for most courses getting an A or a B anything else is failing is the expected course of action, though that isn't to say the coursework is easy.
You effectively couldn't graduate with less than a 3. If you elect to do a MS, the comp exams are another matter. For the PhD, it's all research, research, research. For that same reason, some people try to take classes that are reportedly less work or where active research work can count toward a class project because otherwise, it takes too much away from research time.
It's a very different experience for me than undergraduate because of the low regard for class work though doing poorly will invite mockery. I know one who does it because he is an alcoholic and a pedophile. Point being, having a Ph. The point of the article is many of these folks actually want to be janitors. They have no debt and want a job that pays for 8 hours, but requires only 2 or 3 of actual work. But I also work about It's not the same as being a janitor, but it's similar in that there's very little oversight and the work isn't really too bad.
I think a lot of the guys that go into super science aren't really looking for huge pay checks anyway. They love the science and the challenge, and they don't want to be burdened with all the BS that comes with dealing with "regular people" because we will get in their way. So I can respect that sort of decision. I've worked B. It ain't greener on the other side of the fence.
Most software engineers work on pointless shit and complain about idiotic or short-sighted management as well. The problem isn't that these product executives and bikeshedding non-techs have low IQs. We viciously lambast them as "retards" and "morons", but it ain't true.
If they were physically limited we'd be dickheads for judging them. It's the willful stupidity that's the sin. They're more than smart enough. The problem is that they and half or more of all developers, to tell the truth are willingly intellectually half-assed. Once they get power it's an excuse not to think. They do become genuinely stupid in the low IQ sense over time but that atrophy takes decades. In other words, it's not that "regular" people are the idiots who make our lives hell.
According to the US Census Bureau, only 1. This makes having a PhD very rare. One alarming statistic to consider is that according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, there are 5, janitors in the U. This shows that people with the highest level of education are unable to get jobs in their field right now. That is to say that we now look to liberal education as the only form of respectable professional training. We have spent the last four decades trashing the trades and trade-based training.
This is a result of that move. We have diminished the value of a liberal education by looking to it for much of the kind of training we should have gotten from a properly functioning trade system. If you peel open the jobs that ostensibly require technical skills, you will find that most of the project engineers, program managers, and other management hangers on who form the bulk of engineers that large companies hire, do nothing more than fill spreadsheets and tables in various database, leaving out the actual work to immigrants or to engineers in far away lands.
People can be trained for such jobs within a few months after a bare minimum high school education. This was really interesting. Did they go to Community College? Our largest export is trash…. So the problem isnt that we have too many educated people for the jobs its that we have too few good jobs for the people. And THAT has to do with public policies that prefer outsourcing to domestic production. A long, long time ago my father who had a Canadian secondary education comparable to two years of college declared that it would take a college degree to push a broom the way people were being assembly lined into post secondary school.
My dad was actually right! Also, take a look at what happened in India some years ago. Tons of unemployed Ph. Hey, where is the balance???? Whoever said the education with GET you the job?! I would always rather hire someone who had clearly worked their way up than babysitting someone with a top school degree; everyone should have an opp at education, but no one should have the expectation of be given stellar careers just because of their expensive and mostly useless degrees.
School seems to be a way of pushing that decision to a later date. I have thought about proposing an introductory class to the community college here that focuses on helping people figure out what they do want to do, if they need the education and how to function in society with the basics of every day life. School may teach you how to write a paper but it lacks teaching the vast majority how to buy a house, cook a meal, change the oil on a car, all the things you do in every day life.
I think a class on some basics and some work helping people figure out what it is they want to do and what is required to get there would help in this area a lot and aid in preventing lost money and time dumped into higher education. I mean some waiters and waitresses make more than I do a year and I do estimating for a high precision machine shop and use my degree, well sometimes….
I stopped college with an Associates degree AA … today I own my own company, support a family of six, send my children to private school and maintain a decent 6 figure income. The idea that universities should serve simply as vocational training institutions frankly makes me nauseous. I have three children; two of whom recently finished college and one who quit college during the end of freshman year. While it is certainly too early to predict how their careers will end up, I can tell you that the two graduates are in the lead.
That said, the communications major, who graduated a year and a half ago, is gainfully employed in her field. The non-graduate is considering vocational school or possibly community college. I have high hopes for all three of them, but I can tell you which ones, at this point, have the easier paths. Factors such as personal motivation, job history, personality traits, discipline and maturity also enter into the equation. I agree the fault lies more on the student than the schools.
In my university days, most students seemed more focused on getting through the classes rather than really learning something important. This was in a business faculty. They get out of it what they put in. Others who maximized their university experience and really learned, generally have little difficultly securing great work.
Or even better, they create their own opportunities. Education is what you make of it. Every school has great libraries, professors willing to listen and a small percentage of motivated students. The most talented take advantage of that incredible opportunity to better themselves. The rest just memorize facts for their next exams. True confession: I make my living from what I learned in high school commercial art classes. The business experience and computer skills I gained after college were also helpful.
As for college, the only career-useful part of it was gained through working as a reporter for the school paper. And, for that, I got zero course credit. I hear a lot of people say they were not sure what they wanted to do in life, so they went to school while they figured out. And if you happen to be a janitor with a PhD, then you know what we're talking about.
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