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The Importance Of Optoruing A Career In Biological Sciences

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The purpose of this journal response is the pathways to careers that are available for recipient. In the journal, it is hypothesized that most people who pursue a career in academia as profession were on the path to Shangri-La. To obtain a PhD in biological sciences is 7 years; a lot of people are presented to this concept as four-year degree. The data indicates that majority of PhD recipient will do 4 years of post-doc appointment. Each recipient will require to work for 5 years depending on the track position to build up the rapporteur. Survey of doctorate is a requirement for all recipient of PhDs in United State for the completion of their degree. Once you are successfully entered the visitation, you are then sent a link by your …show more content…

According to Dr. cornelison, most people who pursue a career in academia as professors are on the path to Shangri-La.

2) Describe one or more of the cited literature references used as background information (i.e. information for which an external source was credited in the references).
Dr. Cornelision refers to a bar graph from studyscientist.com, Illustrating the percentage of PhDs holder in different field of study. The bar graph illustrates the average time for recipient to obtain their PhDs and the percentage of the dropout rate. 3) Of the methods used in the current study (which could include methods for collecting data, methods for analyzing data, or some modeling approach), which one seemed most innovative and/or most interesting to you? The most innovative aspect of the methodology was the number of recipient who obtained their degree. Out of the percentage of recipient who obtain a degree; 10 percent of the recipient would be employed with different jobs and 10% of recipient with postdoc considered themselves unemployed.

4) Which of the study's results or conclusions did you feel was the most critical or informative from a purely scientific perspective and why?
The comparison of PhD holder between United States and United Kingdom proved the most informative in my view. The graph emphasizes that 15% of post-doc students in the United State received a 10-year backtrack

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