Well I just Experienced a Weird SJW Thing

They meant their neighbor is "like you" in that they use the same logic/have come to the same conclusion about PhD-havers. Not that you are high school educated. 95% sure.

overeducated and not via TED talks wrote:

srths wrote:

I know is that in my experience in the practical world PhD's have been wrong. This has been surprising to me.

Oh, and this gem:

srths wrote:

PhD's know a lot about a subject (that anyone can learn on their (his, her or other) own but in my experience they don’t reach correct conclusions.

I have two PhD’s and I have one HS-educated neighbor like you. He frequently holds forth on random subjects that fall within my two science fields. I have a practiced neutral expressions and noncommittal nods for these occasions, but occasionally he insists on my input anyway. He invariably finds my conclusions to be wrong.

Why in the world would someone get 2 PhDs?

Bra-ket wrote:

overeducated and not via TED talks wrote:

Oh, and this gem:

I have two PhD’s and I have one HS-educated neighbor like you. He frequently holds forth on random subjects that fall within my two science fields. I have a practiced neutral expressions and noncommittal nods for these occasions, but occasionally he insists on my input anyway. He invariably finds my conclusions to be wrong.

Why in the world would someone get 2 PhDs?

To tell people you have two phds.

Did you read the same thing I read what he what he wrote? If what you say is true why did he even bring up the HS part? To show that PhD's are superior to people like me who he thinks is just HS educated like his neighbor? I'll tell you this, if I'm right he's defined exactly what I said about my experience with PhD's. If I'm wrong I apologize and I will try to double on rethinking what I think I know to be true. I only want to become a better person and have no problem with the truth.

It's all good. As long as someone is comfortable working in their environment, they'll flourish including their academics. Anyways, the academic world isn't the real world, so it's technically fine for now.

https://imgur.com/a/2EeykUM#j4FG2ke

You could just add this to your sig

Eyes have da big D

srths wrote:

Did you read the same thing I read what he what he wrote? If what you say is true why did he even bring up the HS part? To show that PhD's are superior to people like me who he thinks is just HS educated like his neighbor? I'll tell you this, if I'm right he's defined exactly what I said about my experience with PhD's. If I'm wrong I apologize and I will try to double on rethinking what I think I know to be true. I only want to become a better person and have no problem with the truth.

You keep adding the word “just” in front of “HS-educated.” This modifier did not appear in the post you are discussing.

The other poster said that his neighbor is high school educated. Are you not high school educated?

Didn’t mean to hijack the thread. The following should cover the posts mine sparked:

I completed two PhD’s because the 3rd one didn’t occur to me until my 30’s and I didn’t get a fellowship for what had by then become inflated tuition costs to cover it.

My neighbor is elderly and had earned a high school diploma back when high school diplomas required earning. We agree on many things. The conversations I try to avoid with him are those in which he challenges findings in my rather recondite area of expertise in a dazzling display of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

I don’t know how many years of education srths has completed. I feel neither superior nor inferior to him/her. Of course I harbor generalized feelings of superiority; most people do. Mine are usually sparked when someone sneers at educational attainment. Yes, I’m an intellectual snob. I’d be a PR snob, too, if my PR’s were worth crowing about, but they are not.

The pronouns I’m partial to are she and her. It’s a purely chromosomal preference in my case. I’m not hurt by the “he, him, his,” assumptions, however: this is, after all, LRC.

No one sneers at legitimate educational attainment; people sneer because they know that much of the accredited university "educational attainment" is mostly or all complete nonsense and wasteful. There is a millionaire I know of who doesn't have a university degree. He failed in a quite a number of business when he started but those failure were real lessons for him and were responsible for him then being able to accomplish what he did. That's real education. I sneer at the college professor who is teaching business management but never managed a business!

to get two phds wrote:

Bra-ket wrote:

Why in the world would someone get 2 PhDs?

To tell people you have two phds.

You don't need 2 PhDs to do that...you don't even need 1

Bra-ket wrote:

to get two phds wrote:

To tell people you have two phds.

You don't need 2 PhDs to do that...you don't even need 1

I think gender works about the same way....

This is such a good response. Pretty obvious that you’ve got simultaneous access to both hemispheres.

srths, take a seat.

Yes! He been dazzled by that Dunning- Kruger effect.

overeducated and not via TED talks wrote:

I feel neither superior nor inferior to him/her. Of course I harbor generalized feelings of superiority; most people do. Mine are usually sparked when someone sneers at educational attainment. Yes, I’m an intellectual snob.

To be an intellectual snob, you have to be an intellectual. You're at best an educated snob.

An intellectual with two doctorates would be talking about their career achievements, not their schooling. You haven't mentioned anything of note, so you're actually a failure. Two different departments wasted years of time and resources on you instead of training someone else who might have amounted to something.

did anyone else read the thread title and assume the OP got pegged in a rest stop bathroom?

NYCgrad wrote:

Don’t believe anyone chose a pronoun other than he/him or she/her.

What are the other options?

rojo wrote:

NYCgrad wrote:

Don’t believe anyone chose a pronoun other than he/him or she/her.

What are the other options?

At least ten million. Here's someone that does a rough estimation.

Co, Cos

En, Ens

Ey, Eir

Xie, Hir

Ve, Vis

Yo, Yos

Ze, Zir

And these are only some of the “gender-neutral pronouns” a student can choose.

The sad thing is, in about 50 years

you might start doin' some thinkin' on

your own and by then you'll realize

there are only two certainties in life.

One, don't do that. Two-- you dropped

a hundred and fifty grand on an

education you coulda' picked up for a

dollar fifty in late charges at the

Public Library.