Timeline for Have there been any recent studies on the effect of age on PhD success rates in the US?
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| Oct 21, 2019 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1186160338766651393 | ||
| Oct 16, 2019 at 21:19 | history | edited | Time4Tea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 16, 2019 at 20:16 | answer | added | sean | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 19:52 | answer | added | Elizabeth Henning | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 19:42 | comment | added | Elizabeth Henning | @Time4Tea It's still a weird thing to say. The relevant question for an admissions committee is whether you have what it takes to complete the PhD now, not whether you hypothetically might be or might have been more suited at some other time of your life. | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 19:38 | comment | added | Time4Tea | @ElizabethHenning I took it to mean 'peak academic potential' or 'peak mental sharpness', or something along those lines. But I could have misinterpreted. | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 19:33 | comment | added | Time4Tea | @JonCuster thanks for the reference. I will take a look at that. | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 19:30 | comment | added | Elizabeth Henning | "Past your peak" how exactly? Peak of what? | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 19:28 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | I would suspect that the reasons for lack of success would be more a function of age than age is predictive. That is, younger students may drop out because they made a mistake or just kind of limped into graduate school without knowing what they want to do; older students may drop out because of more "life happens" stuff such as illness of themselves/a spouse/a child/a parent. | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 19:20 | comment | added | mkennedy | Related: academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5082/… | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 19:19 | comment | added | Jon Custer | REVISITING GLADWELL'S HOCKEY PLAYERS: INFLUENCE OF RELATIVE AGE EFFECTS UPON EARNING THE PHD. by Kevin M. Kniffin and Andrew S. Hanks, Contemporary Economic Policy. Jan2016, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p21-36. 16p. may be of interest. | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 19:03 | history | edited | ff524 |
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| Oct 16, 2019 at 18:47 | comment | added | A Simple Algorithm | I have heard academics express concerns about career-changing candidates at the faculty-hiring stage. Though it tends to be more about whether they will enjoy the job enough to stick with all the nonsense we deal with, or whether will abandon us to go back to their higher-paying (and probably lower-stress) industry career. For grad-school admissions you just need to provide a story for how school fits in to your career as the next logical stage. | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 18:15 | comment | added | Time4Tea | @Buffy thanks for your comment and I certainly will apply regardless. But still, I'd be interested to know if there is any concrete data that shows age is not a good predictive factor. | |
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| Oct 16, 2019 at 17:43 | comment | added | Buffy | Hmmm. I would think that age is one of the least predictive variables for PhD graduation success. It would be overwhelmed by other variables. Can a 70 year old with drive be a success. Sure. To me, 37 is still a kid. Just. Do. It. | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 17:36 | comment | added | Flyto | And to anybody thinking "close as a shopping question" - please think twice! This is a question asking for specific findings about academia. I can't think of anything more on-topic than this! | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 17:35 | comment | added | Flyto | Good, specific, question! Thank you. | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 17:26 | history | asked | Time4Tea | CC BY-SA 4.0 |