--- Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> My title is definately not professor (even though I am sometimes
> called that on statalist)
--- n j cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> (c) Getting it wrong and giving someone a title they didn't
> earn -- even if in your personal view they deserve a Big Title --
> can be at least as bad. There are cultures in which you flatter
> by exaggeration, but there are cultures where inflation
> is upsetting too, not least (but not only) because programming
> or academic types can be picky people who like to see all the details
For the record, I have never been offended by anyone calling me a
professor. Mostly it provokes an emotion of mild amusement, especially
since the most common mistake people make when they meet me in person
is to mistake me for a (undergraduate) student.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting address:
Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z434
+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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