Amazing argument. Just amazing

... learning where the frontiers in a field are, the big questions, incompleteness, and areas a field has not yet tackled. Someone with a Ph.D. can often look at a graph and say, not ‘that isn’t true,‘ but ‘that data doesn’t exist.‘”

They learn methods for finding reliable information, when to be suspicious of data, and how to act upon those suspicions. In addition to learning what we know, a Ph.D. student gains expertise in what we don’t know ...

... before entering a work force which will not be, in five years, what it is now. ...

The Ph.D. process teaches broad expertise in research methods. Doctorate holders know how to evaluate evidence, chase down sources, verify claims.

Do we all need to hear this again?

Of course we need to hear this again

💙 📚

I wish I could say I had a specific memory to share, but nothing comes to the surface. (Who knows what is lurking in my subconscious?) Thank you for thinking of me though!

Star of the B-roll 🤩

“I was struck by another business major in the book, who said, I wish I’d majored in a skill — you know, like Spanish or English. My jaw hit the floor.“

“Graduates from practical majors, while generally better-compensated, were often doing rote, clerical work that made little use of what they’d studied.”

yikes

It’s a biennial. When it blooms in its second year, it’s easy to spot. But our friend Knapweed Nightmare can find it during its first year, when it’s just a little rosette ... 🌹