(Randall Munroe/xkcd)Pro tip for graduate students: members of your thesis committee cannot discover the flaws in your methodology or your questionable conclusions if they're running for their lives.**Do not actually do...

How long is a doctoral dissertation? Too long&mdas...  ...ject.* But he did a lot of number crunching using dissertations at his college library.On average, the longest dissertations are in history at roughly 300 pages. The shortest...