Grad school is worse for public health than STDs | benkuhn.net

(The way you can *really* tell something is horribly wrong is that grad students find PhD Comics darkly funny, not just dark.)

Epistemic status: deliberately provocative title. Caveats: "in the relevant age group," "according to back of the envelope math," "with some assumptions about severity definitions," "if the correlation is causal"… For a long time, I have been totally mystified by the amount of human capital that is flushed down the toilet by graduate schools. My partner is in her last year of a philosophy PhD, so I have front row seats on the train wreck. Most students meet with their adviser-the only other person who is (supposedly) invested in their work-less than once a month. (There is supposedly a "d

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