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Six Months for a Ph.D.?

May 09, 2007

Blogger David Ng wonders how long it would have taken him to get his doctorate if all his experiments had worked beautifully the first time around. Leaving aside course requirements for graduation, Ng estimates that he could have finished in six months, instead of five years, so he concludes that it is perfectly normal for things in the sciences not to work.

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