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So, like, I heart y’all big time. I’d like you to consider the implicit implication here that only a PhD-level education can push the “frontier of knowledge,” and whether that will strike many as cognitive elitism. Or whether it’s even true, empirically.

Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment! You're right, we should have been clearer about the context - the cartoon is actually from 'The Illustrated Guide to a PhD', created as a visual pep talk for PhD students to help them see where their years of narrow focus fit into the bigger picture.

Special thanks to Matt Might for his wonderful illustration!