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Rohin Shah Jun 5, 2022, 1:09 PM
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But does a PhD improve your taste? Seems clear that it depends entirely on the taste and availability of your advisor.
Not obviously? Other potential mechanisms:
- Frequent conversations + feedback from other PhD students
- Reading lots of papers and learning through osmosis (I’m a bit skeptical of this one)
- You try lots of ideas / projects quickly and learn from the consequences of your choices
Conditioned on that it seems pretty safe (70%?); unconditioned, it seems way less likely (20%?).
If the bar is “improves it at all”, and we assume the case I’m most familiar with (someone fresh out of undergrad or Masters doing a PhD at UC Berkeley) I’d say ~95% to both. It’s possible that “UC Berkeley” is doing a lot of the work there, I’m not very familiar with other universities.
- technicalities Jun 5, 2022, 1:24 PM
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  Yeah, I agree for Berkeley. I think I was silently assuming a domain of world top 200 or something.
  One better bar could be “improves taste more than 4+ years of independent work fit around some other full time job”.