Will Ph.D. admissions be more competitive this year? Because there was a pause in many top programs? Or otherwise?
Will Ph.D. admissions be more competitive this year?
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Spot on. It's frustrating to tell people entering programs this and they just roll they're eyes like you're simply tricking them for "eliminating competition" or something... I finished ad got a job, barely! But I would NEVER let my kid do this...
No, a PhDs are junk bonds these days. Literally, departments will look like 3rd werld immigration skams soon.
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It's really not bad IF you are open to going into industry. A PhD in social science can still offer many lucrative jobs if you prepare yourself for that direction.
No, a PhDs are junk bonds these days. Literally, departments will look like 3rd werld immigration skams soon.
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It's really not bad IF you are open to going into industry. A PhD in social science can still offer many lucrative jobs if you prepare yourself for that direction.
No, a PhDs are junk bonds these days. Literally, departments will look like 3rd werld immigration skams soon.Sociology PhDs are not a good choice even in this instance. Just because you can mow your lawn with a weed whacker doesn’t mean you should use that instead of the gas powered mower.
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You really have no clue what you're talking about. Read more books and spend less time on 4chan.
It's really not bad IF you are open to going into industry. A PhD in social science can still offer many lucrative jobs if you prepare yourself for that direction.
No, a PhDs are junk bonds these days. Literally, departments will look like 3rd werld immigration skams soon.
Sociology PhDs are not a good choice even in this instance. Just because you can mow your lawn with a weed whacker doesn�t mean you should use that instead of the gas powered mower. -
You really have no clue what you're talking about. Read more books and spend less time on 4chan.
It's really not bad IF you are open to going into industry. A PhD in social science can still offer many lucrative jobs if you prepare yourself for that direction.
No, a PhDs are junk bonds these days. Literally, departments will look like 3rd werld immigration skams soon.
Sociology PhDs are not a good choice even in this instance. Just because you can mow your lawn with a weed whacker doesn?t mean you should use that instead of the gas powered mower.Name one industry job that a sociology PhD is the only PhD qualification that will satisfy the the requirements of the job. That’s right you can’t.
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One of the competitive advantages of Soc Phd: it's free if you do it right (compared to 100K of debt for a masters in international business, etc).
One of the less competitive advantages of a Soc PhD: there are funded PhDs in any other field that better qualify you for industry jobs (see I/O psych, economics, management)
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Few people actually use sociology to become data scientists or UX designers. Most of those careers are rebounds for people who left academia. The average sociology student these days is an urban race migration scholar doing interviews in a trans youth shelter.
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Few people actually use sociology to become data scientists or UX designers. Most of those careers are rebounds for people who left academia. The average sociology student these days is an urban race migration scholar doing interviews in a trans youth shelter.
Exactly. You’d be foolish to pursue a PhD in sociology if your real goal is to be a data scientist. If you are serious about this as a career you’re in the comp sci applicant pool. People that end up doing this as a soc PhD are theory rahtahded so they fall back on the quant skills they already had to exit stage left.
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Citation?
I interviewed at plenty of UX and data scientist jobs as a sociology PhD. No one cared about the name of my PhD. They cared about my skills. Econ vs soc vs psych vs whatever doesn’t seem to matter much. It’s only an academic d/ck measuring thing.
Few people actually use sociology to become data scientists or UX designers. Most of those careers are rebounds for people who left academia. The average sociology student these days is an urban race migration scholar doing interviews in a trans youth shelter.
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Citation?
I interviewed at plenty of UX and data scientist jobs as a sociology PhD. No one cared about the name of my PhD. They cared about my skills. Econ vs soc vs psych vs whatever doesn�t seem to matter much. It�s only an academic d/ck measuring thing.
Few people actually use sociology to become data scientists or UX designers. Most of those careers are rebounds for people who left academia. The average sociology student these days is an urban race migration scholar doing interviews in a trans youth shelter.Actually the degree to get if you really want to go into UX is HCI. So much more marketable than a soc phd.
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Eh not really. If you study anything related to UX then your skills matter much more than the degree name.
Citation?
I interviewed at plenty of UX and data scientist jobs as a sociology PhD. No one cared about the name of my PhD. They cared about my skills. Econ vs soc vs psych vs whatever doesn?t seem to matter much. It?s only an academic d/ck measuring thing.
Few people actually use sociology to become data scientists or UX designers. Most of those careers are rebounds for people who left academia. The average sociology student these days is an urban race migration scholar doing interviews in a trans youth shelter.
Actually the degree to get if you really want to go into UX is HCI. So much more marketable than a soc phd. -
Eh not really. If you study anything related to UX then your skills matter much more than the degree name.
Rahtahrd detected. You can get a UX job with a bachelors degree, an internship, and some pro bono work to build a portfolio. You don’t need a PhD in anything let alone Sociology to secure a job in this field. But if it helps you sleep at night knowing your p!$$ed away 7-8 years of life on a degree you won’t use good on you.
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Do you feel better now? lol.
Yes you can get a UX job with a BA. And you can get an advanced UX-like job with a soc phd (they are called "quant methods researchers"). If you spent more time outside and less time calling people names on anonymous forums, you might have learned this.
Eh not really. If you study anything related to UX then your skills matter much more than the degree name.
Rahtahrd detected. You can get a UX job with a bachelors degree, an internship, and some pro bono work to build a portfolio. You don�t need a PhD in anything let alone Sociology to secure a job in this field. But if it helps you sleep at night knowing your p!$$ed away 7-8 years of life on a degree you won�t use good on you.
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Confirmed. Making $155k as qual research director in industry, and I've only been working in the industry 2 years
It's really not bad IF you are open to going into industry. A PhD in social science can still offer many lucrative jobs if you prepare yourself for that direction.
No, a PhDs are junk bonds these days. Literally, departments will look like 3rd werld immigration skams soon. -
It depends where you work. If it's a FAANG, this is true - they care about skills, not the degree.
But if you are doing in-house UX at a more traditional kind of place that is a big name (e.g. P&G, Dell, Coca Cola) they want you have to have a Ph.D. for any kind of position where you are directing research. If you're an analyst, of course not; but they prefer PhD's for managerial roles.
Eh not really. If you study anything related to UX then your skills matter much more than the degree name.
Citation?
I interviewed at plenty of UX and data scientist jobs as a sociology PhD. No one cared about the name of my PhD. They cared about my skills. Econ vs soc vs psych vs whatever doesn?t seem to matter much. It?s only an academic d/ck measuring thing.
Few people actually use sociology to become data scientists or UX designers. Most of those careers are rebounds for people who left academia. The average sociology student these days is an urban race migration scholar doing interviews in a trans youth shelter.
Actually the degree to get if you really want to go into UX is HCI. So much more marketable than a soc phd.