I never tell people I have a PhD. It’s rude, plus I don’t have one.
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alykanas@slrpnk.net 17 hours ago
How do you know if someone has a PhD.?
They tell you
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
papertowels@mander.xyz 14 hours ago
I mean yeah, if you spent 5 years of your life pushing the edge of human understanding on a subject, and a shithead tells you to do the science on your research subject, it’s relevant lol
ygajbm2sjcxbggbc0zfb@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Tbf, they kinda earned the right to brag.
Franklin@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
True, but I do think it was warranted in this case.
thevoidzero@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Well you don’t know people with PhD that don’t tell you they have one
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
An unknown-unknown?
dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
This is putting confirmation bias to the extreme.
drtaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Sometimes they don’t tell you and just quietly update all of their usernames…
Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Right? It’s really weird…
xthexder@l.sw0.com 13 hours ago
Do you by chance have a PhD in food science?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 hours ago
Tacology
TwistyLex@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
Funny enough, my boss has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology. She never tells people because they start referring to her as Doctor, and she hates that. I don’t think I’ve actually ever heard her bring it up on her own.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 59 minutes ago
How do you know someone has a PhD?
When it becomes acutely relevant, they’ll politely let you know, and then you can become annoyed at them about it.
Thinking about it, that exact thing also applies to other ‘how do you know someone is/has/does […]’ as well.