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I'm a lowly high school diploma holder. I thought the point of getting a PhD meant you had done something novel (your thesis).

Is that wrong?




My phd thesis, just like 99% of other phd theses, does not have any “truly novel” ideas.


Just because it's something that no one has done yet, doesn't mean that it's not the obvious-to-everyone next step in a long, slow march.




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