“The people that are the most susceptible to the corporate bullshit tended to choose the worst solutions to those problems on a consistent basis,” Littrell said.

Hmmmmmmmm.

Well that goes some way partially to explaining why management at large corporations almost as a rule are uselessly incompetent.

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    8 hours ago

    A PhD is when you know everything about one specific rock on the beach, is how I put it. You know exactly where it is, all of its properties, and can go to it any time. Outside of that one rock, maybe a slightly above-average person, but nothing special.

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      Yup, pretty much. Someone who learnt all the bits and bobs of that rock; but that doesn’t mean the person has strong cognitive capabilities, not even to solve tasks related to that rock.

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        6 hours ago

        Generally speaking a PhD requires producing original research. Which ass-tier PhDs are you referencing that only require learning?

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          Which ass-tier PhDs are you referencing that only require learning?

          The sort of PhD that lands you a job in “HR, accounting, marketing and finance”, of course!

          …okay, I’m being cheeky with the above. But serious now: 90% of research is learning. And the other 10% don’t really require you to be specially intelligent, they require you to be specially stubborn and methodological.