A PhD has to be in something in which you are so interested that the sheer boredom of all the referencing and cross-referencing doesn't wear you down and destroy something you used to love. I enjoyed completing my thesis for my Masters but putting a memory stick into my computer and printing off the appendices etc on an office printer for a PhD student and imagining the sheer tedium of creating all that academic waste of space killed my interest in ever returning to study at a higher level. It's not the study, it's the grind. Data tires you out. At 70 I am now too old for data and am permanently excused from it on medical and psychological grounds.
Theo, you could find something engaging to study at Huddersfield University to a level which stretched you enjoyably short of breaking point. Nice retirement project and you could save on energy when out at the uni'!
The question isn't whether you are intelligent enough to do a PhD, it's whether you are intelligent enough NOT TO. And as regards the above, always remember Social Science is an oxymoron.
Theo, you could find something engaging to study at Huddersfield University to a level which stretched you enjoyably short of breaking point. Nice retirement project and you could save on energy when out at the uni'!
The question isn't whether you are intelligent enough to do a PhD, it's whether you are intelligent enough NOT TO. And as regards the above, always remember Social Science is an oxymoron.