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ok - the title is a bit tabloid-ish, but i do have a question.
i picked up a "children's" book outlining current super-scientists. in it, they outlined the biographies of a lot of living scientists, about half of whom had Nobel prizes.
i noticed in the book, lots of the educational history of those profiled would say something like,
BS 1945
MS 1946
PhD 1949
others would simply say,
BS 1951
PhD 1953
i mean, i know - these guys are SMART, they're SUPER-SMART. but in that entire book, i'd say the vast majority of them got their PhDs in 3 years or less.
how does one do a PhD in 2 years, even if ur IQ is 210? don't super-smart people ALSO have to wait for results to come up, like the rest of us?
i picked up a "children's" book outlining current super-scientists. in it, they outlined the biographies of a lot of living scientists, about half of whom had Nobel prizes.
i noticed in the book, lots of the educational history of those profiled would say something like,
BS 1945
MS 1946
PhD 1949
others would simply say,
BS 1951
PhD 1953
i mean, i know - these guys are SMART, they're SUPER-SMART. but in that entire book, i'd say the vast majority of them got their PhDs in 3 years or less.
how does one do a PhD in 2 years, even if ur IQ is 210? don't super-smart people ALSO have to wait for results to come up, like the rest of us?