How does a PhD make you a better worker than someone without one?

Quackers

Edinburghlass wrote: »

You won't believe this but.....

I'm actually cleaning my kitchen in between posting on here!

Fairy Power Spray followed by the steam cleaner, I really must do this more often

You cleaned?

Are you poorly sick?

Have you seen a Dr with a special qualiffffficationiontion thingy? There's probably one lurking round here somewhere

Can you tell I'm bored and cant sleep.

I should have cleaned today but didn't. Just a regular day here then.

I did manage to switch the washing machine on at lunchtime but the wet clothes are still in the machine

I'm doing this now > but when I get into bed my eyes stay open!

I've got to be at work for 10am & I'm interviewing at 11.30 - I'll be ready for bed by then! Should I just give them the job and ask them to start straight away? Then I can come home and drink tea and eat chocolate.




Cleaning? You should be watching cheery musical dvd's instead young lady

nemo183

Quote:
Originally Posted by studentphil
I am not trying to wind anyone up ANd frankly I find it rather upsetting that everyone hates me.


Dear Phil,

Whatever you/we/anyone thinks about a PhD, I think it's most unlikely that "everyone" hates you. Now, everyone may hate IvanOpinion, (joke, Ivan), and at times some people may violently disagree with me - hard to see why, 'cos I'm always right - but the whole point of this or any forum is to allow others to say how they see things.

A problem with the whole human condition is that we all tend to think that our view of the world is shared by most people. Which it isn't. If it were, how dull everything would be. For a start, me and IvanOpinion would be best mates, down the pub every night, and telling each other what great profound thinkers we are.

Oddly enough, hell will freeze over before this happens. Thank heavens.

nemo183

shokadelika wrote: »

And when was the last time any other PHd doctor

or otherwise generated so much positive ( hopefully) interest in nutrition among the public.?

Are you really being serious? The only interest the commoner Gillian McKeith has in nutrition, and generating a public profile, is so that she can flog more of her range of "products", and fuel her need for publicity.

I'd suggest you visit her incredible (I use the literal sense of the word) website where she is currently making the most amazing claims for "Goji Berry". If you really want to understand just exactly how her claims for this product stack up, and give yourself an education into science, then try googling "Goji Berry".

You'll find there are hundreds of pages saying that these berries are a marvel, and most excellent - in fact almost none of us should be without them - and will cure all manner of ills. Many of these pages will refer to "76 peer reviewed studies" that prove how great the berries are. Most sites omit the fact that Goji juice is most commonly sold via multi-level marketing.

So, my challenge to you - should you accept it - is to actually locate one single peer reviewed article in an accredited journal that supports these claims.

Finally, I strongly suggest you read the following:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,,2011095,00.html

- where she is called "a menace to science". After reading this article, do feel free to refute any single comment it makes - so long as you can support your arguement.

Morglin

studentphil wrote: »

People talk down to me and they think I am not going to get upset and feel worthless,well, I do.

As you can only be a doormat if you lay down for people to walk over you, so you can only be "talked down to" if you allow it.;)

Lin

IvanOpinion

nemo183 wrote: »

Dear Ivan, whilst I first thought you had just made a typo in your post above (tea leave - tea leaf), you may well have stumbled across a whole new area that might even allow proper scientific scrutiny. Whereas mediums, tarot, cold reading etc.etc are for the stupid and gullible, I'd suggest that it might be possible to gain a real insight into someone based on the amount of tea they leave in a cup.

Perhaps your slip on the keyboard will result in a whole new industry? It could be extended to small items of food left on a plate - the point at which you stub out your fag and so on. The list is endless.

Dear your royal nemo-ness PHD, BA, BSc, FBI, CIA, MI5, MIA, !!!!!! Esq.

You make many an excellent point and I would like to lay the blame firmly at the ground of my fingers that are currently on a distant learning course held by the University of Conneticut reading Scottish (as I alluded to in another post). The set I have currently got on loan have been demanding a pay rise and more access to certain parts of DWs anatomy and are therefore refusing to co-operate with the grey matter stored elsewhere in my body (DW and I are also in dispute about its actual location her interpretation applies a region somewhat more southerly to normal perceived anatomical and biological thought processes). Following protracted negotiations my fingers and I have come to an agreement involving a couple of honeydews which has allowed me to type this response.

Regards
Ivan

IvanOpinion

nemo183 wrote: »

Quote:
Originally Posted by studentphil
I am not trying to wind anyone up ANd frankly I find it rather upsetting that everyone hates me.


Dear Phil,

Whatever you/we/anyone thinks about a PhD, I think it's most unlikely that "everyone" hates you. Now, everyone may hate IvanOpinion, (joke, Ivan), and at times some people may violently disagree with me - hard to see why, 'cos I'm always right - but the whole point of this or any forum is to allow others to say how they see things.

A problem with the whole human condition is that we all tend to think that our view of the world is shared by most people. Which it isn't. If it were, how dull everything would be. For a start, me and IvanOpinion would be best mates, down the pub every night, and telling each other what great profound thinkers we are.

Oddly enough, hell will freeze over before this happens. Thank heavens.

Dear your royal nemo-ness PHD, BA, BSc, FBI, CIA, MI5, MIA, !!!!!! Esq.

I feel so dirty, abused and vioilated now ... the thought of being your mate ... eeeeeuuuurrrrrggggghhhhhhh ... just away to Lourdes with a wire brush, dettol and large bunch of nettles to try to cleanse myself

Regards
Ivan

magyar

nemo183 wrote: »

Are you really being serious? The only interest the commoner Gillian McKeith has in nutrition, and generating a public profile, is so that she can flog more of her range of "products", and fuel her need for publicity.

I agree with you, Nemo. I was about to write and refute your earlier post about '99% of people see the title Dr and assume you're a medical doctor', but in respect of someone like McKeith I totally agree with you.

I have never used the title Dr out of context, i.e. in work or in publications. To do so out of context is at best pointless. When you write the title Dr (justified or otherwise) on a book purporting to have health benefits, it is clearly misleading and intended to boost the sales of the book.

Edinburghlass_2

Quackers wrote: »

You cleaned?

Are you poorly sick?

Have you seen a Dr with a special qualiffffficationiontion thingy? There's probably one lurking round here somewhere

Can you tell I'm bored and cant sleep.

I should have cleaned today but didn't. Just a regular day here then.

I did manage to switch the washing machine on at lunchtime but the wet clothes are still in the machine

I'm doing this now > but when I get into bed my eyes stay open!

I've got to be at work for 10am & I'm interviewing at 11.30 - I'll be ready for bed by then! Should I just give them the job and ask them to start straight away? Then I can come home and drink tea and eat chocolate.




Cleaning? You should be watching cheery musical dvd's instead young lady

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I was so busy cleaning last night and today I didn't see your post until now, hope you just gave them the job and came home to eat chocolate

Kitchen tiles and work surfaces are just about able to pass the DR AB test

aurora_borealis_2

Edinburghlass wrote: »

Kitchen tiles and work surfaces are just about able to pass the DR AB test

Wish mine were

I have destroyed my house today (moving bedrooms) and I'm too knackered now to finish the job

before_hollywood

i'm going to reply to the original question- as a student i don't think it makes much difference, as a proffesional with the experience to back up the qualification then yes it does.

my example- student with phd but no work experience, not much difference to any other graduate, still going to struggle getting a job.

professional with phd plus work experience of 20 years for example and respected by others in their field