This might be a silly question but why are theses so long (200+ pages)? Someone just told me that they finished their 213 pages-long bachelor’s thesis, but I‘m confused about who the audience would be. Who would spend so much time reading a 213 thesis of a bachelor student? Do people actually read them? What is the purpose of some theses being so long. Also, on a Masters level, does the long length not make important information inaccessible, because it‘s buried deep down in those hundreds of pages?
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Its also important to note that depending on the field and the specific thesis, a substantial portion of the length can be in appendices and supplementary information that isn’t required to understand the main point of the thesis. This could include things like raw data, exact procedure for all experiments referenced in the thesis, or even all the code used in the experiment printed out. This stuff only really needs to be referenced if you are trying to replicate results or double check the exact methods they used.
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