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pedegree.com
Like ancestry.com, but for graduate studies supervisory commitees | |
This is a website that displays a hyperramous "family tree" of master's and doctoral students and their supervisory committee members. The committee members serve as the "parents," and the students as their "progeny."
Similar
http://neurotree.or...ount=5&cnodecount=4 But not identical. [mouseposture, Oct 14 2011]
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Our understanding of the process is that it is somewhat more incestuous than that described. |
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That's not intended as a criticism, by the way (of either the process, or incest). |
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Just that there is a perceived need for something like this
makes me a little glad that I dropped out of college. |
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[8]//incestuous// That's a testable hypothesis.
<link>,
for example shows a surprisingly acyclic graph. |
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[CauF] Thesis committee members can have, really,
very little to do with the candidate's intellectual or
professional development. Coauthorships might be
better (but it's well-baked). Or let parents and
progeny self-identify (also baked: see link). |
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Darn, it's already baked. |
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I suppose the tree could be pared down so that only the senior supervisors and their doctoral students remain. |
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