majors? you mean bachelors? PhDs get PhD respect. Bachelors get Bachelor respect. It’s not the subclassification of study, it’s the level. if you only have a bachelors, you get less respect than a masters and so on.
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Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIs the amount of credit I should give them less than, equal to, or greater than the amount of credit I should give English majors?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
toynbee@piefed.social 1 week ago
According to the aforementioned brother with a doctorate, the only thing having a PhD indicates is that you can talk for a long time.
I don’t know if that’s true - I never have been and never will be in that lofty section of academics. Even if I were qualified, and I’m not, I’m not sure it sounds like much fun.
But it’s also important to remember that access to education isn’t always something one can directly influence.
My brother is the only PhD I know on a personal level and I can confirm that he is very smart and worked very hard to get to where he is. I assume that that’s true of most people with similar credentials. However, one shouldn’t automatically dismiss someone because they lack that qualification.
toynbee@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I suppose it depends on what you value. Language is more of a creative venture while math is more of a technical one. “Credit” is also somewhat of a nebulous term.
tempest@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I don’t know, once math becomes Greek letters and mathematician names it sort of seems to circle back around.
toynbee@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
That’s a really excellent point.
Quantenteilchen@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Didn’t they just talk about circling back, not back into itself?
Don’t you drop a dimension from this deep conversation!