Should You Get a PhD?

from @tdhopper, sarcastically-ish

[Should You Get a PhD? @ShouldYouGetPhD]

I have a free ebook to help you think through the decision about whether or not to start a PhD program: https://t.co/LUl8warCQF

[Arpit Gupta @arpitrage]

These results suggest that getting a PhD causally worsens mental health, or at least receiving psychiatric medicines. The reversal post PhD degree is particularly convincing.

But the up trend among the control group is intriguing. The highly educated are in distress.

[Neal Parikh @npparikh]

Just drop out. Dropping out of a PhD is not like dropping out of high school. You don’t have to finish it and in fact should not if it’s not working for you. Nobody cares. It’s hard and not for everyone.

[Erik Mohlin @karlerikmohlin]

Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD.
Recent working paper by
@EvaRanehill, @annahsandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström.
Paper link: https://t.co/7X4uEjzPCC

[Should You Get a PhD? @ShouldYouGetPhD]

https://t.co/dqT6IaDfRf

[Joel Grus 🤠 @joelgrus]

long ago when I went to math PhD school I asked the grad director what fraction of grad students finished their PhD

he told me "about 1/3" like it was nbd

and only a small fraction of the 1/3 got good academic jobs

(the grad program was mostly a calculus TA arbitrage scheme)

[Steve McCormick @Quasilocal]

PhD students upon being told that almost none of them will ever get a faculty position:

[the finite physicist @FinitePhysicist]

As a PhD candidate at one of the world's top physics institutions, here is my daily routine:

[Should You Get a PhD? @ShouldYouGetPhD]

I tried to tell you

[nature @Nature]

‘I don’t want this kind of life’: graduate students question career options https://t.co/kiP6oJylio

[Should You Get a PhD? @ShouldYouGetPhD]

"If you’re considering grad school, strongly consider something else. Anything else." @JaredOliphint https://t.co/EETqSRCnGt

[Lisa Cooper 🦬🦬🦬 @LaLaLisaCooper]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but just because you’re smart and/or good at school doesn’t mean you HAVE to get your PhD and become a professor.

[Roy K @roycoding]

And an excerpt from my book, Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers:

[Should You Get a PhD? @ShouldYouGetPhD]

https://t.co/04I1vrMhYF

https://t.co/mPTechr2zt

[nature @Nature]

‘Hard’ skills from PhDs remain relevant beyond academia https://t.co/y5st7faQQ4

[Michael J. Lynch @reformedtexan]

You don't need a PhD to smell and identify bullshit.

[Should You Get a PhD? @ShouldYouGetPhD]

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[Sultan of Sweats @UncleRoss_]

My Pops doing his dissertation for his PhD from Howard at 70 years old

[Drew Conway @drewconway]

You don’t say…

[Mbithe @mbithenzomo]

Oh how's my PhD going? It's kicking my ass, thanks for asking.

[Tim Hopper @tdhopper]

If you like hot takes about Phds, can I recommend my free ebook "Should I get a Ph.D.?" https://t.co/fBRK7fwnbd

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

This is not a subtweet of anyone in particular and it's going to annoy some people since I have a lot of PhD followers/friends and also I'm a stubborn guy myself but...one thing I'm noticed is that once someone gets a PhD, it become 10x harder to convince them they're wrong.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot. 🧠

[Karie Schultz @kmschultz24]

Every time I see a history job posted these days, I feel as surprised as if I'd just seen a unicorn. 😂