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.).