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Chicago teen earns PhD at 17
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impressive - wrote:
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Shot put, javelin, & hammer
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Could have entered at 7; doctorate age 10 as valedictorian
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no doubt she's very intelligent but most primarily online doctoral programs are a joke and poorly regarded for a reason. especially in a nonsense field which integrated behavioral health certainly seems to fall into.
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Her dissertation topic tells everything about the worth of her doctorate degree.
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LetsRunSpecial wrote:
Her dissertation topic tells everything about the worth of her doctorate degree.
Can we see her thesis?
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not a real PhD wrote:
no doubt she's very intelligent but most primarily online doctoral programs are a joke and poorly regarded for a reason. especially in a nonsense field which integrated behavioral health certainly seems to fall into.
Grand Canyon and Arizona State are leaders in online learning and rivalries in sports and academics. GCU could be a good expansion target for Big 12.
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Sally Vix wrote:
Can we see her thesis?
I don’t know if you are interested in reading more of it.
She studied integrated behavioral health at Arizona State University. For her dissertation, she explored the stigma that prevents university students from getting mental health treatment.
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not a real PhD wrote:
no doubt she's very intelligent but most primarily online doctoral programs are a joke and poorly regarded for a reason. especially in a nonsense field which integrated behavioral health certainly seems to fall into.
She is a thousand times more intelligent than you were at age 17 and most like a thousand times more mature.
Why disparage her achievement? Why? What were you doing other than scratching your butt and running a dirt slow 3200 at age 17?
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Doesn't seem like a smart idea. What's the point of missing out on being a kid just to get a PhD from ASU? Even more, not get it in a STEM field.. Her PhD is going to get her little to no money and that's why it was so easy to get.
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She escaped Chicago, that's worth a PhD.
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Not to take anything from this young lady's accomplishments, but as stated above a lot of these "extreme early" college / Phd grads are in gimmicky programs. Even so, you have to be pretty precocious to go through all the college coursework and grad school coursework by age 17. Not sure where she goes from here, though.
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Kenny59 wrote:
She escaped Chicago, that's worth a PhD.
Chicago is the best big city in America, hands down.
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why would you do that? wrote:
Doesn't seem like a smart idea. What's the point of missing out on being a kid just to get a PhD from ASU? Even more, not get it in a STEM field.. Her PhD is going to get her little to no money and that's why it was so easy to get.
She’s only 17. She still has time to take pre requisite classes and enter undergrad in STEM at the normal age.
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Hands up, don't shoot.
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still bothered wrote:
Kenny59 wrote:
She escaped Chicago, that's worth a PhD.
Chicago is the best big city in America, hands down.
Hands up, don't shoot.
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Saw her race results. She also ran a 19:13 5K so not too shabby at distance running either.
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LetsRunSpecial wrote:
Sally Vix wrote:
Can we see her thesis?
I don’t know if you are interested in reading more of it.
She studied integrated behavioral health at Arizona State University. For her dissertation, she explored the stigma that prevents university students from getting mental health treatment.
Just because she doesn't have a STEM degree doesn't diminish her accomplishments. Some people are incredibly gifted at liberal arts and culture, health and society types of disciplines.
Your high school math olympiad champ who completed calculus before even entering high school couldn't explain the complexities of the social issues in the same way that Dottie did neither can Dottie write a 10-page mathematical proof at 17-yrs old like top STEM gifted students.
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Jawan T wrote:
Just because she doesn't have a STEM degree doesn't diminish her accomplishments. Some people are incredibly gifted at liberal arts and culture, health and society types of disciplines.
Your high school math olympiad champ who completed calculus before even entering high school couldn't explain the complexities of the social issues in the same way that Dottie did neither can Dottie write a 10-page mathematical proof at 17-yrs old like top STEM gifted students.
So she explained the complexities of the social issues? By what? Copy and paste from a few Wikipedia pages don’t always make a good PhD dissertation.
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Kenny59 wrote:
still bothered wrote:
Chicago is the best big city in America, hands down.
Hands up, don't shoot.
Have you ever even been to Chicago?
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