Any Doctors on here?
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Does having any of the above make you clever?? Most of the people I have met with those letters after their names live in little offices within a university and are too strange to hack it in the real world! Lots of clever folks out there with absolutely no letters after their names.
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Now extend that to anything and everything for every person and you have life. Woo. Screw you right-wingers.
I still intend to return to uni and do my MPhys. Not for the kudos, or the qualification, or the prospects - none of that. Parties, dinners, work dos, any situation I would introduce myself as 'Tim Noakes, Master of Physics'. It'll be a babe magnet.
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I want to study medicine. Haven't done it though yet so it doesn't count 
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I have a doctorate in love if that counts 
Only joking, im terrible in the sack, real messy
Only joking, im terrible in the sack, real messy
I have a doctorate in love if that counts
Only joking, im terrible in the sack, real messy
Rofl
I'm a doctor of time and space.
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Always makes me laugh when people put all there education in there email sig, like anyone really cares 
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I'm the stig
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Always makes me laugh when people put all there education in there email sig, like anyone really cares
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Oh yeah, you just look like a pleb. We have a doctor at work and he is not that fussed about letters before or after his name. Said he just did the PhD because he enjoyed the subject and wanted the challange.
Trust me, having a PhD does not make you "really really clever". There are some people in my office who are so incapable that I wonder how they manage to tie their shoes in the morning. Of course we have some pretty bright ones too, but it's certainly no guarantee.
As with so many other things, the problem is that the system does not take account for people being incapable of performing independent research. There is great pressure placed on supervisors, from the University, not to let their students fail. When a PhD student is struggling, the supervisor often ends up doing the majority of the work for fear of harming their career (having a PhD student fail is a significant black mark on their record). The exception to this is when the supervisor is already a professor. Having reached the top of their field they can then be more concerned with maintaining quality than with personal career advancement. We had an ecellent case last year where the guy (who had basically just been selling used car parts in the office for the past 4 years) was forced to submit his thesis as an MPhil instead Unfortunately, for every one like this there are two who are dragged through the viva by their supervisor.
And yeah, I have a PhD. I don't generally like to advertise it, but I will use the "Dr" title on official documents, and in certain other circumstances.
As with so many other things, the problem is that the system does not take account for people being incapable of performing independent research. There is great pressure placed on supervisors, from the University, not to let their students fail. When a PhD student is struggling, the supervisor often ends up doing the majority of the work for fear of harming their career (having a PhD student fail is a significant black mark on their record). The exception to this is when the supervisor is already a professor. Having reached the top of their field they can then be more concerned with maintaining quality than with personal career advancement. We had an ecellent case last year where the guy (who had basically just been selling used car parts in the office for the past 4 years) was forced to submit his thesis as an MPhil instead
Unfortunately, for every one like this there are two who are dragged through the viva by their supervisor.And yeah, I have a PhD. I don't generally like to advertise it, but I will use the "Dr" title on official documents, and in certain other circumstances.
Education is effectively your ability to store and recite information. Even creativity is for the most part controlled. It builds on and uses some of the foundations of intelligence, but certainly not most/all of them.
There are plenty of graduates I know with no common sense, or no intuition. It's that ability to take everything you know and be impartial and expand on it. People rarely question and challenge themselves, rather substitute it for being comfortable with what they have been educated on. So many come out of university narrow minded and linear in their approach on life, and I don’t know if you can truly call that applied intelligence.
There are plenty of graduates I know with no common sense, or no intuition. It's that ability to take everything you know and be impartial and expand on it. People rarely question and challenge themselves, rather substitute it for being comfortable with what they have been educated on. So many come out of university narrow minded and linear in their approach on life, and I don’t know if you can truly call that applied intelligence.
True to undergraduate level perhaps, but research is a little different. Simply learning and reciting information will get you nowhere. Unfortunately a lot of people don't fully appreciate this before taking on a PhD.
post grad work has nothing to do with learning and memorising.