Can I call myself a physicist yet?

[Cyrus]

Degrees, titles, even academic positions have little to do with being a physicist, a musician, a painter, a hunter, a pilot, a fireman, a thief or a murderer. A piece of paper does not change your personality. If you are passionate for something and live every day with this passion, who cares what other people call you ?

The profession does not honor the man, it is the man who honors the profession.
(Victor Hugo, poorly translated)

You already have a PhD, or I'd give you one too.

 

[Pengwuino]

I find it strange pheonix that under your view of this, you would consider a person who learns to pass the exams to get a degree yet retains no knowledge/skills, to be an engineer, but would take a person who is highly skilled and holds a huge knowledge of engineering principles and cast them aside as a nothing simply because they have no degree.

Straw man.

 

[JaredJames]

Straw man.

What? Can't say I understand.

 

[Pengwuino]

What? Can't say I understand.

Straw man argument.

 

[Cyrus]

Straw man argument.

Cardboard box.

 

[JaredJames]

In what sense? He says he only accepts an engineer is a person with an engineering degree. And has stated himself, no matter what a person knows about engineering, no matter how good they are at an engineering job, if they don't have a degree to him they are not an engineer.

To be the straw man argument I would have had to state this and then attack it, and then claim his original statement is false because of my presented argument of my statement. Whereas Pheonix has actually stated he only accepts a person with a degree as an engineer and that anyone without is not one.

 

[Pengwuino]

I suggest you look up what a straw man argument is defined as like I just have.

What?

Furthermore, you claim someone with a degree only knows how to take exams and knows no real knowledge and someone whos been in the industry for a long time always has a wealth of knowledge and understanding. It's silly.

 

[JaredJames]

Thank you Cyrus I just googled to find what a Cardboard Box argument is! Feel like a right plonker now.

 

[JaredJames]

What?

Furthermore, you claim someone with a degree only knows how to take exams and knows no real knowledge and someone whos been in the industry for a long time always has a wealth of knowledge and understanding. It's silly.

I didn't claim anything of the sort. I simply pointed out that some people who do the degree are like that. At NO POINT did I say ALL people who do degrees simply learn to pass exams. Please do not take posts out of context like that, in my book you are seriously discredited because of it.

 

[Dadface]

I'm thick so I'm a thicksisist.

 

[feely]

I can't believe I sat and read all of this. What a waste of time.

 

[Feezik]

What else can you do when you are enduser ?

 

[Chi Meson]

Stop this absurd thread. Flatmaster checked out at post 9. NINE! He began with a fairly benign question, and it doesn't appear that an answer either way was going to define anything or anybody, yet it devolved into a mini war, a flame-p!$$!ng contest. I appreciate our "edgy" (dammit, is there another word?) members and the humor they bring, but...

what is this, Youtube?

 

[Astronuc]

Locked pending moderation.