wooohoooo... I started at 22.5 and have near enough brown hair... only I'm aquarius. Hmmm.

I also agree with PhDBug about 20 somethings definitely having the maturity to conduct good interviews, etc. I never had any problems when doing mine, and have been called on to do several consultation projects, including ones for government depratments, and I'm a 20 something. I think it's an individual thing. You can't generalise on this one.

Hi,

I'm 24 and submitting in the next few months. My supervisor is about 15 years older than me. There are no power differentials and he's extremely impartial. He encourages me to speak up about my work and other aspects of my career (teaching etc), and never asserts his own opinion over mine.

I feel extremely lucky and proud to be doing my PhD so young. I've learned a lot over the last 3 years and am glad I've had this opportunity to grow before my career has properly begun.

Actually you don't wind me up at all. Takes a lot more than that to get to me. score.

I'm glad it was a joke. I find your arguments hilarious.

Oh my... we're back on the subject of moral decay, etc, etc.

I'm speechless. No wait. I'm not.

I'm doing an extemely worthwhile piece of reseach which will no doubt benefit the lives of many people. How can you say I'm contributing to moral decay by doing this? If you think doing a PhD (and therefore becoming a doctor - it will happen whether you like it or not), is contributing to "moral decay" in society, I think you should reconsider whether you should be doing a PhD yourself.

Seriously, it's not all doom and gloom... oh and apologies for contributing to this ghastly society in which we live.

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It was a joke. Of course I'm not doing a PhD just to be a doctor at the end. If that's all I wanted I'd buy the title online and not put myself through three years of hardwork and labour.



Geez Cleverclogs... chill out! Stop taking life so seriously!

Cleverclogs, I think it's high time you take yourself off your little self-made pedestal... you're really not impressing anyone, except perhaps yourself.

Ahhh... but sneaks... we will be the "proper doctors". I have a number of friends who are medical doctors who admit to me freely that they wish they had the "ability" to do a PhD. Medical degrees are afterall long versions of bachelors degrees, with the added benefit of being able to call yourself a doctor. Medical doctors still have to do masters degrees, research, etc to get to the top of their game.

Lets all face it... we want to be Doctors by the end of it.

When did this discussion become a debate about IQ??

IQ and intelligence are two very seprarate things, often confused to be the same. I agree with MissSpacey. Intelligence refers to creativity, reasoning, common sense, emotional understanding, natural or learned ability. IQ tests do not test for these types of intelligence. They examine numeriacal, spacial and verbal reasoning, but those factors in themselves do not denote intelligence.

I'm of the belief that everyone is intelligent if you give people credit for the things that they are good at. A dancer may well not know how to write an academic article, but who am I to criticise when she/he can move more gracefully than I could if I tried. An artist can create beauty with their hands, but may not be able to solve the simplest of problems. Are we to say Picasso wasn't intelligent?

Intelligence has nothing to do with IQ. IQ is the scapegoat for people who can't recognise their own, or other peoples natural talents.

I'd also like to point out that IQ tests are in no way valid. It would be quite easy, if one wanted, to "revise" the types of questions in an IQ test and learn the ways in which to answer. They're also culturally unreliable.

haha... I thought they were two separate questions.

Guess I'm really not that clever. :$

1. a river
2. a flower bed

People who know me personally think I'm joking when I say I'm doing a PhD. Obviously they don't think I'm that clever. Oh well. It doesn't offend me though. I agree that there are plenty more intelligent people than me. I'm just really lucky I think.

Haha. He's attractive in an oddly geeky way. Love it.

The one that's on is when he meets a load of hypnotists in Las Vegas. I love how he humors them. His books are ace as well.

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I'm procrastinating by watching Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends on Dave. It's hilarious. I think the man is a genius.

Anyone agree?