This is a very tough question to ask because there are so many advisors on this forum so I am expecting most inputs from the current grads. This question largely stemmed from a post I read online about picking advisors.
The top recommendation offered on a list of things about picking supervisor is to never pick someone who is nice, friendly and available. Specific examples being "nice associate professor ladies" and "prof emeritus".
This quote caught my attention the most
If you’ve never cried before, during, or after a meeting with your advisor, something is amiss.
And indeed, from a student's perspective, there are profs who are more on the intense, no nonsense side, and then there are the profs who are more easy going. If you don't believe me just go on ratemyprof dot com and see the comments for profs who are rated at the top and those at the bottom.
But this is just one person's opinion. So my question is to what extent does this idea actually hold in academia? Is there any truth to nice profs are less capable than mean profs in producing good students?
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