What do your children call adults?

Let me expand on that earlier answer by noting that if you're at an institution where people actually give a shit about whether an EdD should be called "Doctor," you're in a place where the difference between an EdD and a PhD is irrelevant.

 

Good point, thanks. And you've definitely earned the privilege of being called DoctorQueef here. ... Saluto!

 

For some reason I don't care for calling a PhD 'doctor.' It irks me. But I got into a tizzy with a local political appointee who was in the news. She was always referred to as 'Dr. So and So.' Unfailingly. I assumed her PhD was related to her job, which was transportation or city planning. I looked it up and her PhD was in sociology or something similar. You shouldn't be referred to as 'Doctor' if you aren't working in the field of your PhD.

 

I'm always OK with "Your Majesty" ...

 

It's minutia, granted, and petty on my part.
I guess I think of it the way some on here seem to think about Mr.
I see Mr. as an expression of civility and courtesy that I wish would come back.
Dr., on the other hand, is an honorific that indicates and recognizes accomplishment.

 

For a helluva long time Noam Chomsky has worked, and gained notoriety, in areas pretty far afield from his original doctoral work (lingustics). I don't particularly care for much of his politics, but in pretty much any setting (other than sitting at a bar) I'd refer to him as "Dr. Chomsky".

 

He is still in academics and nominally a professor of linguistics. The woman I described was doing nothing related to her PhD and still had everybody calling her doctor. I found it misleading and that it gave her a presumed status as an expert in transportation that she didn't have.

 

Would you call a chiropractor "doctor?"

 

Witch Doctor.

 

Both Chomsky and that woman better not bring that weak-ass "Doctor" shit to Germany. It's illegal to refer to yourself as "Doctor" there unless your degree was taken in Germany (or, lately, an EU country).

Non-European PhDs In Germany Find Use Of 'Doktor' Verboten

 

Now I want to get two PhDs in Germany so I can have people call me "Dr. Dr." I would make them sing it like in that Thompson Twins song.

 

Would your students have a bad case of lovin' you?