Angry Willy wrote:
Professors love them. Assigns them research work, professor puts name at the top of the research paper, and student's name is buried in the footnotes or is listed as a "contributor". This happens every day of the year.
Exactly!
Well sorta. If it's really the student's work, they are lead author. Nobody's name is in the footnotes, I don't know what that means. If a student has a valuable contribution to the publication, they are an author. And that's not just me, that's every situation I know of, although I'm sure it's happened where someone got left out.
But yes, we definitely seek out students who are smarter than we are so we can take credit for their work.
But not this IQ crap again. I've been in academia for 20+ years, mostly at a large research university, and I have never, not once ever, heard anyone mention IQ. I don't know my IQ score or that of any of my students or colleagues. Why on letsrun do folks talk about IQ scores like they're a thing?
btw, "smart" is only good if it is paired with the ability and drive to get work done.