I don’t think risk goes up linearly with time. Many people quit their PhDs when they aren’t a good fit.
Fair enough.
Maybe a pragmatic solution here is to emphasize to people who get a grant to do independent research that they can quit and give back the remainder of their grant at any time?
Fair enough.
Maybe a pragmatic solution here is to emphasize to people who get a grant to do independent research that they can quit and give back the remainder of their grant at any time?
Yeah, I think we’ve done that a few times, but not confident. Would have to look over a bunch of records to be confident.