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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

How do you know if someone has a PhD.?

They tell you

Never not true

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago

I never tell people I have a PhD. It's rude, plus I don't have one.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days 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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago

Tbf, they kinda earned the right to brag.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago

True, but I do think it was warranted in this case.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well you don't know people with PhD that don't tell you they have one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

An unknown-unknown?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

This is putting confirmation bias to the extreme.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Sometimes they don't tell you and just quietly update all of their usernames...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you by chance have a PhD in food science?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Tacology

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Right? It's really weird...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

..why shouldn't they?