Doesn’t it kind of defeat the purpose though, when you have to apply nearly as much filtering to the potential science representatives as a PhD program does?
(Btw, a lot of your hedging about qualified debaters seems inspired by my misgivings about taking a random TA.)
Doesn’t it kind of defeat the purpose though, when you have to apply nearly as much filtering to the potential science representatives as a PhD program does?
(Btw, a lot of your hedging about qualified debaters seems inspired by my misgivings about taking a random TA.)
Well, not literally inspired. I originally wrote the post before you wrote that comment. :)
Suuuure you did! Think you can prove the necessary conditional independence? ;-)