>Ideally grad students would stop pouring in, free labor would dry up at universities, and they’ll have to raise grad student salaries to acceptable wages again. Seems unlikely given how badly people want to do anthropology PhDs, and that there’ll always be people who can afford to take a poorly paid position like that because their partner or parents are paying the bills.
I like how you phrased that.
One potential solution is some feedback loop telling students how many PhDs in anthropology we really need. We're currently producing way more PhDs in non-STEM disciplines than there are post doctoral academic positions (I mean that broadly; e.g. post-docs, tenure track, full time lectureships).
Instead of giving out 5 PhD spots, maybe a program can give out 1 PhD spot and pay that student 3x more. They'd save money and could focus on creating one really good professor, instead of 5 struggling lecturers.
In data engineering, I think your responses to the 'entity resolution' problem are a good Dunning Kurger style litmus test.
If you don't know, entity resolution is the process of matching unique rows in two or more databases. Are these the same movies? Are these the same person?
Novice DE: Oh easy, just merge on the name.
Intermediate DE: OH GOD NO. <michael_scott_no.jpg>