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  1. 1. Highest education level completed (or currently working on)?

    • Less than high school
      26
    • High School Diploma
      40
    • Associates Degree
      10
    • Bachelor's Degree
      45
    • Masters Degree
      21
    • Doctoral Degree (PhD, EdD, etc)
      21
    • Professional Degree (MD, JD, etc)
      1
    • Combined Degree Program (MD/PhD, MD/JD, etc)
      3

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DocBill

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I did not know how to answer this poll. I am currently finishing a second Ph.D, but in a completely different field. Both Masters degrees are in seperate fields as well. So I will leave it blank.

 

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paganinio

paganinio

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I did not know how to answer this poll. I am currently finishing a second Ph.D' date=' but in a completely different field. Both Masters degrees are in seperate fields as well. So I will leave it blank.

 

Bill[/quote']

 

the poll question is silly! :confused::confused:

almost everyone has 2 different answers.

paganinio

paganinio

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I'm in highschool. I'm climbing my way up, in 15 years i'll be smarter than you ALL!

 

human's brain grows very slowly after your age,15 years later you will just be as smart as now you are

SurfSciGuy

SurfSciGuy

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the poll question is silly! :confused::confused:

almost everyone has 2 different answers.

 

Quite. I put down the one I'm working on (PhD) but I have an undergraduate Masters degree (I can hear the americans going wtf? now...).

Sayonara

Sayonara

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The poll is for "highest completed or working on". What's the problem?

 

If you are not working on a qualification now, you put the highest one you have.

 

If you are working on one now, and it's higher than your previous efforts, you put down that one.

If it's lower than your previous efforts and you are just doing it for a laugh, then again you put down the highest one you have.

Dapthar

Dapthar

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human's brain grows very slowly after your age,15 years later you will just be as smart as now you are
Anyone else see the problem with this statement, or is it just me?

 

paganinio, you realize that if your assertion was true, there would be no point in attending any post secondary institution, correct?

Quite. I put down the one I'm working on (PhD) but I have an undergraduate Masters degree (I can hear the americans going wtf? now...).
Care to explain how this is possible?

 

Sayonara³:

 

It's kind of sad that you had to explain the poll, to someone who has supposedly reaped some of the benefits of post secondary education, no less.

Sayonara

Sayonara

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Paganinio' date=' you realize that if your assertion was true, there would be no point in attending any post secondary institution, correct?

Care to explain how this is possible?[/quote']

I imagine he is talking about intelligence rather than knowledge.

 

Certainly there is a point to learning specialist information at higher levels, but it is true (iirc) that most of the groundwork for your brain's ability to process information in new ways occurs early on, then almost stops.

 

It's kind of sad that you had to explain the poll, to someone who has supposedly reaped some of the benefits of post secondary education, no less.

The irony was not lost on me ;)

DreamLord

DreamLord

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I'm still in high school. Just two more years to go.

 

Quite. I put down the one I'm working on (PhD) but I have an undergraduate Masters degree (I can hear the americans going wtf? now...).

 

You're right about that. There is no such thing as an undergraduate masters degree over here. You have to be a graduate to get one of those...

SurfSciGuy

SurfSciGuy

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The poll is for "highest completed or working on". What's the problem?

 

If you are not working on a qualification now' date=' you put the highest one you have.

 

If you are working on one now, and it's higher than your previous efforts, you put down that one.

If it's lower than your previous efforts and you are just doing it for a laugh, then again you put down the highest one you have.[/quote']

 

Really? But it didn't say that in the title.

 

The highest level of education I have completed is Master's, I am working on a doctorate. I could have answered the poll as a Masters or PhD, hence the two choices. I shall refrain from making dubious comments about your intelligence though as I am nice.

 

As for the undergraduate master's. In the UK we can work towards a Master's qualification direct from undergraduate (in the physical sciences). It's like a higher undergraduate degree that allows you direct into a PhD - basically you take extra, advanced courses and do a more involved research project. The course lasts 4 years normally, when you graduate you are entitled to use the letters MSci (or MChem, MPhys, etc) as opposed to a postgraduate qualification which is MSc or MPhil (MPhil being a more extended period of research than MSc). Of course as Britain has signed up to the Bologna accord they will become a thing of the past in a few years

SurfSciGuy

SurfSciGuy

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The title is "Highest education level completed (or currently working on)".

 

Exactly, so I can answer in two different ways. There is no indication as to the preference of the proposer for which he would like you to put down.

YT2095

YT2095

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The title is "Highest education level completed (or currently working on)".

as in the original post/title and the beginning of post #8.

 

Sayo, I see your patience for repeating yourself has improved!

personaly it would have done my box in by now! :)

badchad

badchad

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Damn, an undergraduate masters degree? It seems to me that doing your undergraduate/graduate work in the UK would definetly be a wise choice.....

SurfSciGuy

SurfSciGuy

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Damn, an undergraduate masters degree? It seems to me that doing your undergraduate/graduate work in the UK would definetly be a wise choice.....

 

It takes less time at least.

Quixix

Quixix

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I don't see anything silly in the question. The HIGHEST level, not how many. You may find it useless, but I don't find it silly

Quixix

Quixix

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I'm in highschool. I'm climbing my way up, in 15 years i'll be smarter than you ALL!

 

I do not know what your concept of smartness is. If you believe it grows with age, you'll be very dissapointed.

r1dermon

r1dermon

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associates here....surprisingly the ONLY one....im still working on it...argh....

if you're saying you'll have a lot more experience in 15 years...well, you're obviously correct...however, if you're referring to intelligence...i wouldnt count on it...hehe

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