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		chairhairair on Nov 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Graduate students question career options The second set of graphs must be in error, correct? 67% have attended conferences but only 0.7% have networked...? Only 0.7% have discussed their career with peers/colleagues? That's impossible. Did they forget to convert these decimals to percentages, or did no one sanity-check this data at all?

lemursage on Nov 8, 2022 [–]

Maybe many PhDs attend conferences just because they have to have some paper/poster presentation rather than they are genuinely interested in making new connections? That's what I'm guilty of at least.

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