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What percentage of people in the UK currently hold a PHD qualification?

This is not a question about student numbers in general or undergrauates/masters students. I would like to know what percentage of people hold a PHD in the UK.

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10% would be a stretch, 5%, unlikely, maybe 2-3% i would say.

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How many people have PhDs?

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It's estimated that only about 1 percent of the U.S. population has a Ph.D.

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Why are some people, especially PhDs, not taking Quora seriously and are quick to belittle and discount Quora? Will they eventually come around?

EDIT: There is no solid evidence that PhDs aren't taking Quora seriously, aside from a small (1-10?) smug group whom the Anonymous original poster declines to identify. However respondents (candidates for PhDs mostly) propose that PhDs may be too busy...

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As pointed out in comments on the original question and in other responses, I'm not sure academics don...

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If possible, would you give a lot of poor people extreme intelligence so they could get PhDs?

That way, there were a lot of PhDs, which would then lower the vaule of PhDs and put all the current PhDs in the poor house. REVENGE!

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>Implying hard work/intelligence and not luck makes success

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What percent of tenure-track openings in each field get filled up by people who got their PhDs in a different field?

E.g. lots of fields prefer Physics PhDs to their own PhDs.

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I believe most of these are PhDs, based on the discussion around its use, but the original source is...

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Will the Aurora shooting discourage people from pursuing PhDs?

Given that this shooting might be a result of failed PhD ambitions, could this shooting discourage people from pursuing PhDs?

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First, I hadn't heard that the shooting was a result of failed PhD ambitions, only that he was a PhD...

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Would encouraging people with PhDs to teach k12 improve early education?

Higher education has too few tenure track jobs available in the United States. Supposedly, there are too few highly qualified teachers who are teaching in the k-12 system, particularly in content areas, such as physics and earth science. I realize that...

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Maybe. There's a skill required in teaching that PhD.s don't necessarily possess.

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How common is it for people who finish with their PhDs to then move onto startups?

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Fairly common. Many times, especially in Engineering, it's common for people to come up with some breakthroughs...

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