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peltast 3 points ago +3 / -0

One of my old girlfriends was a Ph.D in education. The protocol is for people at the school to call you "Dr." because, of course, that's their bread and butter. To ask/demand that somebody not in your university to do that? Sad.

ETA: Also, it's a bit fraudulent. General usage is that we call MDs, DOs, etc...doctor. Whoopi Goldberg even said (of course, without knowing that she wasn't a real doctor) said, "She's a helluva doctor!" Hmm...We can bet that Whoopi didn't mean "She's a helluva a doctor of Educaton! You should see her lecture!"

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Watermelons 1 point ago +1 / -0

That makes more sense. Thanks.

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peltast 1 point ago +1 / -0

I have a Masters in Ed. I don't expect my friends or coworkers or people I deal with to call me "Master peltast".

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Watermelons 2 points ago +2 / -0

Lol. Yeah. I have a master's in statistics. I've joked about people needing to call me master. But if I had a PhD I'd expect people to call me Dr in official circumstances but not much else. Mainly in educational settings.