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What’s the difference between a doctoral degree and a PhD?
Doctoral degrees are geared towards applied studies such as practising medicine or law.
PhDs are more research-oriented and theoretical.
To further muddy the waters, all PhDs are doctoral degrees, but not all doctoral degrees are PhDs
It’s like drawing a distinction between a Masters Degree and an MSc.
Everyone knows that the MSc is better than the other Masters Degrees, so it’s natural it should be a tier above in the hierarchy.
Is an MSc better though? Isn’t it just a different area than an MA?
I’m just being silly. I have an MSc and my wife has a MA, so I promise there’s no ill will - they absolutely are as good as each other. (Honestly, if anything I think she wins out, as she had to write her dissertation by hand - mine was all on computer).
In the same vein, an MD is just as much a doctoral degree as a PhD - it’s just in a different area.
In some places PhDs were treated to be higher diploma than an MD though, at least in Hungary there was - many years ago - some odd system where you could only capitalize “Dr.” before your name if you had a PhD, if you were “just” an MD or a legal doctor, you could only have it like “dr.”.
That’s really interesting! So, apologies for the late reply, you sent me down an internet rabbithole.
Two of my good friends are from Hungary, and in the nicest way possible the fact that there’s a rule for that doesn’t surprise me at all!
One of them had a kid after moving here with her husband and deliberately named her something that they wouldn’t have been able to over there. It’s just a pretty normal ‘English’ name, but apparently in Hungary there’s a list of approved names for babies.
That particular rule doesn’t exist any more, since the country adopted the international system.
That said, the baby name register is stupid and actually quite racist in origin. It was made so that Romani people can’t give their kids “unique” names.
I came in sure there was no difference but wow.
Yeah except ork shit works
Bruh did you make admech the highschool diploma? The ones literally responsible for the tech in the whole Imperium? Come on they’re at least masters!!
I dunno, I could kinda see it - they don’t understand a ton of their own tech, and have folded religious belief into even basic maintenance routines until they can’t tell whether lighting incense or chanting as they work changes the outcome. I don’t know about the admech, but the imperial guard types seem to believe every device from a heavy bolter to an ancient and venerable space marine tank are all equally likely to have machine spirits animating them - presumably they got that thinking from their tech experts. There’s also the sort of outlined belief that tech is sort of… naturally occurring? and that it’s heretical to invent new stuff when the correct process is to discover it somewhere.
Add to that the fact that the quality of their tech has declined pretty drastically from their past (aren’t most STCs, which they basically worship as the best of their modern tech, like the crude, sturdy equipment you’d give a colony that was just starting out?) and the fact that some of it is sometimes possessed by literal daemons or other ancient abominations… it sort of seems like they’re in over their heads compared to the others.
I can appreciate that, I just simp for the admech. They do follow a religious order that’s seeped into everything but just because they’re theatrical doesn’t mean they’re ignorant of how things are working. It just means they fix stuff with style!
On the other hand there definitely is the tech that is unknown and they have a hard time reproducing really good lost tech from the ancient times. Ok maybe they just have a bachelor’s! 😅
The way I see it, they wouldn’t be able to go so heavy into augmenting their body with extra arms and shit if they didn’t have at least some idea of what they are doing.
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