When I was a kid, we called that “playing doctor”.
We’ll need a different term for that or people might get confused and think children are medical doctors.
I can’t get her whole dissertation without using Interlibrary Loan, but the preview pages appear to be the same as the cited document. I converted it to Word and ran a spelling check. I find a few typos (slcoholism, liason), which is better than most major news sources these days. There’s some variability in her use of hyphenation, though I don’t know which academic stylebook was required. Similarly, she uses “&” in an occurrence of the school’s name and “and” for the same later. I see a misplaced figure (repeated on the next line; from context it’s clear it’s a typo). I see a few places where she might have used the wrong word, or might be using her profession’s jargon. There are some infelicities of expression. I’m not going to go through the numbers. On the whole, the writing is fine and organized coherently, and significantly better than many of the theses, dissertations, submitted manuscripts, and professional publications I routinely read or edit.
As to content, while not sparkly, it serves the need it was intended to address and probably actually helped underserved people, which is more than I can say of Tucker Carlson’s oeuvre.
From a covfefe/hamberder perspective, it’s golden.
The only thing I glean from people averse to using the term “doctor” as meaning “one who has a doctorate” is that they must not have attended college…or at least not one with qualified professors.
Fox never ceases to amaze me–literally on the same day, they had a FOUR PERSON PANEL who were all apoplectic with outrage that people were complaining Melania took her mask off in a children’s hospital. “SHE WAS READING TO SICK KIDS! FOR CRYING OUT LOUD YOU PEOPLE WILL ATTACK HER FOR ANYTHING! JUST BACK OFF!!!”
…later the same day, Tucker C spent his THIRD NIGHT IN A ROW this week obsessing over Dr. Jill Biden, this time nitpicking typos in her dissertation…
That is…astonishingly petty. He called it “our national embarrassment.” Her dissertation–from whenever forever ago–THAT is our national embarrassment. Mel posed in nudy mags…but “this smart chick and her typos!!!”…I can’t even with this anymore…
Really? It seems to me even in the before times (i.e., pre-COVID) wearing a mask in a room full of sick and possibly immunocompromised children might be desirable.
Yeah, it betrays a limited perpective. Thinking “Dr.” has to mean a physician is kind of like thinking “engineer” has to mean somebody who drives a train.
Pssh what was she supposed to do…read to them in a muddy accent AND through a slightly muffled piece of cloth?
People who think they can’t talk with a mask on annoy me. Last night I saw a man take his mask all the way off to field a phone call.
A while back–and this takes the cake–I watched a woman remove HER mask because SHE couldn’t hear another guy. How ca that POSSIBLY help?
…We’re doomed.
Is there a word for the Republicans who say that only medical doctors should be respected with the term “doctor” while simultaneously ignoring the COVID advice of the elitist medical doctors?
The typo that jumped out at me was the use of “undeserved” instead of “underserved” in the second sentence. Spellcheck wouldn’t catch it but it looks bad to say that the needs of the students are “undeserved”. Still, that is not only an easy typo to make but again, one that spellcheck would miss.
The same way turning down the car stereo helps you find a street address?
I get the humor in this and I as well had the same thought, but at least turning down the radio helps you to CONCENTRATE a little more. Pulling a mask down to HEAR is just dummy-thick.
Yes, and easy to figure out (if you even notice it) from the context, which is services to retain underserved students.
I caught more typos in my dissertation draft than my committee did, and I catch far more problems of all sorts in theses and dissertations than their primary advisors do. These are not super-burnished documents intended for widespread consumption. For example, I am aware of 2 people not on my committee who have read mine, and it was a fascinating document indeed (plus, all my in-text references corresponded exactly to my complete and orderly reference list).
I missed a step and jumped in this thread late–why is anyone nitpicking her dissertation? Did the wingnuts dredge it up out of hatefulness of her level of degree? Why in the world is this (presumably years old) document even in our sphere of reality right now?
I suspect it’s a petty attempt to cast doubt on Dr. Biden’s worthiness of the title.
Tucker Carlson is calling her illiterate and a national embarrassment:
lawyers used to add Esq. to their name but I think that fad has passed.
It’s still done. More in some areas than other.
I don’t recall ever seeing that in Canada. Would be the “poor man’s” equivalent to a QC.
at small schools it’s easier to get a PhD. Know a guy who got his at Univ of North Dakota in entomology. because he was living there because his wife was from there . His dissertation was about stat software. I am pretty sure that would not fly at a bigger school. He never worked in entomology as far as I know. Guessing UND does not get a lot of applicants for their PhD programs.
Foxnews has spent several days on this important issue.