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."
-- Cuit_au_Four, Oct 14 2011

Similar http://neurotree.or...ount=5&cnodecount=4
But not identical. [mouseposture, Oct 14 2011]

Our understanding of the process is that it is somewhat more incestuous than that described.

That's not intended as a criticism, by the way (of either the process, or incest).
-- 8th of 7, Oct 14 2011


Just that there is a perceived need for something like this makes me a little glad that I dropped out of college.
-- Alterother, Oct 14 2011


[8]//incestuous// That's a testable hypothesis. <link>, for example shows a surprisingly acyclic graph.

[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).
-- mouseposture, Oct 14 2011


Darn, it's already baked.

I suppose the tree could be pared down so that only the senior supervisors and their doctoral students remain.
-- Cuit_au_Four, Oct 17 2011



random, halfbakery