Timeline for Should we allow this type of question: "Evaluating a doctoral program/institute of CS"
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| Feb 28, 2011 at 18:52 | comment | added | Raphael | What about asking sth like "I want to work on X, would you rather go to school A, B or C?" | |
| Feb 22, 2011 at 5:06 | answer | added | KavehMod | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 22, 2011 at 4:45 | comment | added | Kaveh Mod | I agree with Joe and Peter. Questions like "what is the best university/department/program/area/researcher/...?" can lead to nasty things, they are too subjective. On the other hand, asking for criteria for judging seems OK to me (to some extent that it does not become nasty), but the OP needs to be more specific, if OP does not provide a set of objectives then the question seems to be a bad subjective question and should be closed. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 22:05 | answer | added | Tsuyoshi Ito | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 17:57 | answer | added | Dave ClarkeMod | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 16:57 | answer | added | Neel Krishnaswami | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 16:45 | comment | added | Raphael | Well, I guess I am not enough a creature of political correctness: stepped-on toes are no argument, imho. People should be able to provide balanced answers; if not, he won't receive one. Asking the author to narrow his question would be a good compromise, too. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 16:40 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @Raphael: I would disagree. Such things should definitely influence our policies, and this is exactly why "What are the good programs in CS" is not an allowable question. Any answer to that is going to step on a lot of people's toes (although if you privately asked people in the field, nearly all of them would come up with close to the same list of the top five or six programs). This question is broad enough that it is approaching the same territory. That's why I think it should be focused to one or two of the bullet points. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 16:14 | comment | added | Raphael | Joe, I do not think such things should influence our policies. I am not sure about that question myself. It is TCS related and can definitely only be answered by researchers but is not technical. I think making it CW would be a good compromise. We have questions asking for good books, why not also one for good environments for a PhD student? And, in the end, maybe by comparing different models here, shortcomings in programs can be identified and resolved. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 14:37 | comment | added | Joe Fitzsimons | I would be against it too. It seems very subjective, and the bit about faculty quality seems a can of worms. There have been some pretty nasty anonymous ad hominom attack in the comments section on a number of well known CS theory blogs, and I would really like to avoid seeing any of that here. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 14:10 | history | asked | Peter Shor | CC BY-SA 2.5 |