It depends on the field, program of study, and institution. Some places want masters degrees coming in. Others, a bachelor's or postbacc, so they can do a combined "full tour" masters-through-PhD and they get to shape students as-is.
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Depends in if you include behavior and psych as STEM, I guess, then.
Plausible bullshit machines.
Maybe it's just my field, but every PhD program I've seen, applied to, attended, sent students to, etc... was basically paid for, outright. Mostly it's a matter of moving, which is a gigantic bitch.
And slave labor, not only to build the hardware, but to view the mountains of CSAM and other heinous material to build the "guardrails"
Yeah, that's the other fucked thing about all this. None of this damage or surveillance will be rolled back by anyone else. It's in place, guess we'll continue to use it.
It's the same awful.
The plagiarism checker we use where I am, I basically use it to check citations. Like... if it's 70% "plagiarized" it usually means either a student used proper citations, or they copied the instructions Into their submitted document.
That's what the harness is for.
Then it's lucky the numbers line up as well as they do, no?
So they're using the Thu'um?
You already said STEM. Some universities I've worked with include psych in the STEM department. It is a science. Fuck saying "hard sciences" like some kind of tiered distinction.
And, to my previous point... every psych PhD I've come across has been paid for. Hell, my advisor even had the balls to say "if you're paying for a PhD, you're doing it wrong," when someone asked about funding during the interview.