Timeline for Why does independent research from people without formal academic qualifications generally turn out to be a complete waste of time?
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| Jul 3 at 23:01 | comment | added | Lee Mosher | There may be diminishing marginal returns from meeting with the advisor... yes, over the 3-4-5-6 years of a graduate student's graduate career, that does eventually happen... which (among other reasons) is why they get kicked out of the nest eventually. | |
| Jul 3 at 17:09 | history | edited | Daniel R. Collins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2 at 22:29 | comment | added | paul garrett | Bingo. Also, if one has a really expert advisor, the "marginal returns" are not diminishing, but perhaps accelerating, maybe super-quadratic, as one learns "what the game is". I'd claim that an advisor whose help is sublinear, etc., is not the best advisor one might hope for. Well, though, there're practicalities... sigh. | |
| Jul 2 at 22:11 | history | edited | Daniel R. Collins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2 at 22:10 | comment | added | JoshuaZ | This is a really good analogy. That said, there may be diminishing marginal returns from meeting with the advisor, so the effective time advantage of those meetings ends up smaller. On the other hand, in grad school one interacts not just with one's own advisor but with many other professors and others. | |
| Jul 2 at 22:05 | history | answered | Daniel R. Collins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |