You don't learn how to produce good results until you're at least 2 years into your Ph.D. Nobody is putting a lot of resources into your bachelors or masters project, it's about learning how to do a project.

This will undoubtedly vary by field, but at least in Psychology there's a massive pressure to be published. Does it matter if your research is meaningful? Impactful? Referenced? Nope. Just get published. While I certainly do think a part of it is so that people, as you point out, get the experience, it certainly is more than that in Psychology. Our field has a massive replication crisis because there's only a demand for novel research. People would still get the same experience from doing a thesis that involves a replication study of some kind, but that is seen as less-worthy by prospective Ph.D programs. As a result, people complete projects on trivial topics that add nothing but fluff to the filing drawer.

This post was edited by Handcuffs on May 9 2021 09:55pm

Damn, psychology really is a garbage field. I've published in organic chemistry and cancer biology, and in both of those fields if you publish "fluff" you'll hurt yourself more than help. If your results aren't meaningfully advancing some aspect of the field you'll just piss off the person hiring you for wasting their time reading your garbage paper. If you're lucky it's so bad or worthless we'll pass it around the group for a laugh.

Depends on your degree. A private company funded my bachelor degree capstone engineering project, and cut me and my team two checks, one for each semester. Very nice fat checks.

This post was edited by RedFromWinter on May 9 2021 10:12pm

spending 10 years to obtain a title means you're committed at best, doesn't say anything about how intelligent you are or even if you have useful skills outside of researching niche subjects

This post was edited by duffman316 on May 9 2021 10:40pm

An MD is a physician.

Republicans are dumbfucks who confuse the broad term doctor with the specific term physician. You conservatives sure love to get outraged over nothing.

How many do you have?

I have a phd took me about 16yrs to get there. Especially the d part

This post was edited by addone on May 10 2021 01:17am

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In some fields, all the low hanging fruit has been picked and it's simply impossible for a graduate-level student (who's not an absolute prodigy) to meaningfully advance anything.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on May 10 2021 03:45am

You sound insecure



That sounds like a miserable experience. What's the motivation?