08-03-2023, 05:27 AM
(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'
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.
