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🔴PhD admissions season is ramping up, so I feel obliged to join the chorus of voices reminding everyone that doing a PhD is, in most cases, a terrible idea.

🔴It can be really amazing when it works out well! I enjoyed doing one! But that was in a growing field with lots of jobs NLP, in a city I already had friends, in an unusually supportive and respected department, as a native speaker of English, etc..

🔴But if you look around at the numbers on depression and anxiety, the average case is *really really* bad. Here's an especially cynical/flippant summary if you haven't seen this kind of thing:
https://www.benkuhn.net/grad/

🔴There are lots of really valuable things to do that involve serious intellectual engagement, don't require a PhD, and are *much* more fun and *much* better paid!

🔴Unless you're certain that you want a career that requires one *and* you're doing everything you can to make it easy on yourself, don't do it.

🔴(I think my group/environment at NYU is much better than average here. Being in a collaborative and well-funded field really helps! But these issues don't totally go away. Proceed with caution!)

× Sam Bowman×
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مشاهدات من هم این را تایید می‌کند که تحصیلات دکتری بطور متوسط کیفیت و رضایت زندگی را پایین می‌آورد و فقط زمانی ارزشش را دارد که شما از متوسط خیلی بهتر باشید (حالا به هر دلیلی: موقعیت مالی خوب، دانشگاه برتر، روابط کاری خوب، خوش‌شانسی و ...)

×دومان بهرامی×

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