(08-03-2023, 05:04 AM)søren Wrote: didnt read it all but u can tell those cases of early 'graduation' are always some fkd up in the head parents pushing their children since their very childhood

those families are also the wealthiest as well so u could rarely make the argument of pressure by necessity. its the trophy child for the parents lmao 'oh look heres the ever more sucessful clone of me'

(08-03-2023, 05:19 AM)Mustang Wrote: No, they're just fake degrees, it makes the college prestigious to have prodigies even though just mathematically as a function of scheduling you can't actually get a PhD before 9 years of schooling. Earliest someone could theoretically get a PhD is 15 and your ability peaks at 12, so you can't really do your best before 21.

(08-03-2023, 05:23 AM)søren Wrote:

(08-03-2023, 05:19 AM)Mustang Wrote: No, they're just fake degrees, it makes the college prestigious to have prodigies even though just mathematically as a function of scheduling you can't actually get a PhD before 9 years of schooling. Earliest someone could theoretically get a PhD is 15 and your ability peaks at 12, so you can't really do your best before 21.

that makes sense. but idk, there have been countless cases of 'prodigies' that suddenly fall into irrelevance and you can always tell it were the parents behind it someway for the attention and the 'pride'

(08-03-2023, 05:27 AM)Mustang Wrote: They are all fake, they reserve easy results for political reasons, Terrence Tao did his dissertation on some bullshit and did nothing of importance afterwards.

Prodigies are a sign of academia dying and not needing real credentials plus in the old days everyone got a PhD for free and it was meaningless. The best people do things in the real world and phds don't.

(08-03-2023, 05:30 AM)Mustang Wrote: Peak of academia being credible was about 1990 to 2010, it was destroyed by sjw, global warming and paper mills and it's been reduced to an authority for political parties to use for bullshit.