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Since the headline calls her a "scientist" now we can rely on "scientific consensus". She isn't a scientist.
by landemva 6y ago
Since the headline calls her a "scientist" now we can rely on "scientific consensus".
She isn't a scientist.
- resoluteteeth 6y agoIf the headline said that a computer scientist faced arrest, would you also feel the need to make the same comment?
- recursive 6y agoEven worse: "software engineer"
- dehrmann 6y agoI'm a pretend engineer and I know it.
- the-dude 6y agoI actually studied software engineering during my Technical Computer Science study at the University of Twente ( NL ). Does that bother you?
- recursive 6y agoNo. I call myself a software engineer too sometimes. But I have no engineering certification or training. Just a quirk of language I guess.
- superbcarrot 6y agoThe headline calls her a data scientist because that was her job title. You can have an opinion about the term but there are many people who have that job title, or that term in their degree, or generally work in that subfield of our industry so it's hardly NPR's fault for using the term too.
- landemva 6y agoPublic schools had a recent outbreak of title inflation, and now they have a page of people with titles like "Chief Learning Officer" and "Chief Legal Officer". They aren't on board of directors of a corporation with legal fiduciary responsibility and aren't carrying a sidearm in the military. They might be a chief, but the pretend Officer part is elementary school make-believe. TSA scanner employees aren't officers either. They can't even arrest people, and that is why there is typically a bored cop sitting around nearby. The Florida arrestee was a UI web developer. Scientist ha ha ha.
- h_anna_h 6y agoThe arguments here and in the Assange case are similar. "he is not a journalist", "he is unstable", "he hacked computers" etc