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Am I the only one who finds the term Practitioners both overused and offensive?
by jacobgorm 3y ago
Am I the only one who finds the term Practitioners both overused and offensive?
- y1n0 3y agoOffensive? Why?
- jacobgorm 3y agoThe way it often is used as a politically correct way of saying "grunt programmer", as opposed to PhD-wielding "expert". Why not just C++ "programmers" instead of C++ "practitioners" in the case of this article? I'm a PhD in CS who writes C++ all day long, and I think of myself neither as an "expert" or as a "practitioner", but as a programmer.
- y1n0 3y agoThanks for the reply. I had no idea people used practitioner in a derogatory way. If anything I thought it was a little hoity-toity , so that’s good to know :)
- tialaramex 3y agoTo me the association is Nurse Practitioner, which in the UK is a Nurse upgrade. Nurse is a "normal" undergraduate degree, Nurse Practitioner requires a post-graduate Masters to top that up and grants Prescribing rights like you'd get if you were a Doctor. The Nurses end up with weaker Chemistry, but much stronger practical experience before being granted prescription rights. Their PGT does a bunch about how to read & understand research papers, so that they can stay on the cutting edge and contribute to their discipline.