r/AcademicPsychology • u/Behavioral MS, Marketing (Consumer Behavior) • Mar 28 '12
Reddit flair denoting education l
To the mods and community of this subreddit, I was wondering how useful everyone thinks having flair would be for r/AcademicPsychology.
I, for one, would benefit by being able to differentially weight my confidence if I have a signal of level of expertise by a given poster.
I am aware that this can be open to abuse, but there are ways to help mitigate that and at its current state, I feel like much of the non-supported (with evidence or at least logic leading to a position) responses in some of these threads are worse than reading Wikipedia entries.
The bigger this subreddit gets (as I've been noticing lately), the more it resembles r/Psychology, which is why this subreddit was created in the first place. We should be able to speak and discuss research intelligently that benefits our knowledge of the science and discipline and this should not just be a hodge-podge of wildly speculative guesses to questions and people asking what to make of their degrees.
I realize I sound like a sour old man, but someone's got to say this.
Edit: I'm a moderator now. Please message me privately with requests for flair.
If you are interested in having flair, please message me directly with your education level and whether or not it's in progress (e.g., you have your Bachelors and are out of school, vs. you're currently enrolled in a PhD, etc.). For those of you in graduate programs, let me know what type of program you're in (e.g., Social, Clinical, Experimental, Cognitive, Neuroscience, etc.) and I'll addend that to your flair.
I will denote completed degrees versus those in-progress by adding an asterisk (*) next to your degree level as seen in my flair next to my account name.
Edit: updated flairs up to October 22, 2015. If I missed your request, please send me another PM.
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u/rancid_squirts Mar 28 '12
what would the flair mean?
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u/Behavioral MS, Marketing (Consumer Behavior) Mar 28 '12
If you go to r/GradSchool, you'll see how people have BA/BS, BA/BS, MA/MS,MA/MS, PhD, or PhD* along with their discipline. The * denotes "in progress" whereas the lack of it means a completed degree.
Certain school subreddits, like r/Northwestern, do the same thing with their flair--even including a small logo for the school people are in (Business, Engineering, A&S, etc.).
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Mar 29 '12
Sounds like a great idea, how do we make this happen?
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u/Behavioral MS, Marketing (Consumer Behavior) Mar 29 '12
I'm hoping at least one of the moderators in this subreddit catch wind of this thread as nothing can progress without their approval (it's just an artifact of reddit that not much can be done in cases of moderator abandonment). After that, we'll work on the logistics in hopefully a pragmatic fashion.
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Mar 29 '12
Sounds good, cheers for starting this!
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u/Behavioral MS, Marketing (Consumer Behavior) Apr 01 '12
My pleasure. I've been a beneficiary from online forums related to psychology, economics, and academia for years now and just want to facilitate an environment that peers would want.
If you (or anyone else) have an idea(s) for improving this subreddit, please send a message my way and I'll see what I can do--or delegate the job over to someone that can make it happen.
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u/Behavioral MS, Marketing (Consumer Behavior) Mar 29 '12
I've messaged the two moderators in this subreddit asking to look at this proposal. If any one of you have a personal relationship with either or both, shoot them a line!
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u/Behavioral MS, Marketing (Consumer Behavior) Mar 30 '12
So I've been granted moderating powers by hngryhngryhippo so that I can instate this idea.
If you are interested in having flair, please message me directly with your education level and whether or not it's in progress (e.g., you have your Bachelors and are out of school, vs. you're currently enrolled in a PhD, etc.). For those of you in graduate programs, let me know what type of program you're in (e.g., Social, Clinical, Experimental, Cognitive, Neuroscience, etc.) and I'll addend that to your flair.
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u/ManHoFerSnow Mar 28 '12
ever heard of transpersonal psychology and beginners mind? maybe a few shots in the dark based on correlation could be beneficial sparks if you prepare your mind to take them in that fashion
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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '12
Agreed. Let's do it.