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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Education isn’t a social science either. I know scientists thinks social science is a softer BSy category, but it doesn’t actually encompass everything else in the world...[/quote]

Education is a subject, not a method. You can do educational research that is social science, even if not all educational research is. I know people who do ethnography, psychology, and/or demography of education, they are social scientists. And for better or for worse what do you think all the quantitative assessment going on in schools is attempting to do?

-a social scientist[/quote]

By your definition shouldn’t she be considered a scientist ?
She’s doing educational research. Her PhD is in education with a focus in literacy- early childhood

Social scientist but couldn’t I just say scientist ? What’s the big deal
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Of course, you can say scientist.  But, people will laugh, mock you, and believe you are putting on airs.  Because, the vast majority of people out there don't regard education researchers as scientists.

BTW, you can call her an astronaut if you want - but that doesn't make it so.  [/quote]

This. My husband is an scientist. That’s his job title. His PhD is in engineering. Technically he could ask people to call him Dr. but he would never do that because it’s confusing (he is not a medical Dr) and pretentious (he is not in academia). Even when he was doing post-doc research at a university, no one called him Dr. And he refers to himself as a scientist or a researcher. [/quote]

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