My thinking is, pre-phd service might promote resilience, stoicism, practicality, resourcefulness, teamwork, confidence, and familiarity with a wider range of people.
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Unpopular opinion: Psychology would be a better, more realistic science if more researchers had served in the military before getting their PhDs. Even Civil Air Patrol did me some good as a teen.
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I think it better for those in the social and behavioral sciences to experience life a bit before pursuing advanced degrees. Academia is an artificial environment that thrives, partly, on the naiveté of youth.
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"Hmph! You don't know meeeeee..." -Phillip Buckhaults, Ph.D.
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psychology, like all of the “social sciences,” are soft sciences. This explains the inability to duplicate many of their findings. It also explains why the weather forecast is so often incorrect.. perhaps we should have invented an alternative word for the soft “sciences” .
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I would dispute that Atmospheric Science is a “soft” science.
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Interesting, but why?
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I too rely on institutions committing international slaughter to teach me how to meet deadlines
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Or literally anything in the real world before getting their phds ...
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Academia in general would be served with more warrior-scholars instead of ivory towers. Maybe they should do a Pilgrimage or Walkabout to get firsthand experience instead of theoretical.
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What are the benefits, in your opinion?
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