Re:STEM Shortage Claims and Facebook's $19 Billion Acquisiti...
by digita88 on Monday March 10, 2014 @09:56PM
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I have read through their Masters thesis and compared it to others in their department. The quality of the writing is low which surprises me considering that the person graduated in a top tier level university.
As for the PhD, I don't see proof of other papers written during that time so they may have indeed focused solely on their work. I just need that desire to communicate properly extending beyond their thesis.
Generally there are 3+ years between writing your Master's Thesis and your PhD, during which you spend a lot of time writing and editing and would hopefully get significantly better at doing so. I don't think there is any inconsistency in seeing an improvement in ability over that long span. It would be like looking at someone's code from the beginning of their career, comparing it to something they just wrote, and citing the inferior quality of their earlier work as a clear sign that someone else helped them with their most recent stuff.
> - I found out that they registered a domain name Dr <Last Name> back even before they started. Who the heck does that?
Why is this weird? Presumably if you're entering a doctoral program, you plan on finishing it (whether or not that happens). Whats wrong with getting a domain if you think you'll need it in the future?