Even relatively informed people don't understand that physicians aren't members of the scientific class and in practice are closer to car mechanics than fuel chemists.
A person with a DMA, DPA, or a DMM are all still called "Doctor" colloquially, but not people with a JD.
A Doctorate of Science should by the sound of it be the one that members of the science class have, not a PhD, but it curiously represents both an award that's equivalent, beyond, and less than a PhD depending on who awards it and how it's awarded -- and is curiously often the degree of choice for medical doctors and other health practitioners but almost never the degree for chemists, biologists, physicists or other sciences.
Most people don't even know there are doctorate degrees other than PhD.
>Most people don't even know there are doctorate degrees other than PhD
I think you sort of answered why institutions often award a PhD rather than ScD/DSc/etc. (And there are some related examples related to Masters degrees.) If there's an industry job opening for a PhD, how many ScD resumes end up getting filtered out because the candidate doesn't have the "right" degree? I've definitely heard this type of thing on occasion from graduates who don't or at least didn't award the standard degrees. Even my undergraduate degree isn't quite "normal" (SB vs. BS) so I use the standard form on my resume not that it matters at this point.
I can't remember at the moment, either Harvard or John Hopkins was phasing out the ScD because it didn't have the "brand" recognition of the PhD and for years both degrees had exactly the same programs.
Even relatively informed people don't understand that physicians aren't members of the scientific class and in practice are closer to car mechanics than fuel chemists.
A person with a DMA, DPA, or a DMM are all still called "Doctor" colloquially, but not people with a JD.
A Doctorate of Science should by the sound of it be the one that members of the science class have, not a PhD, but it curiously represents both an award that's equivalent, beyond, and less than a PhD depending on who awards it and how it's awarded -- and is curiously often the degree of choice for medical doctors and other health practitioners but almost never the degree for chemists, biologists, physicists or other sciences.
Most people don't even know there are doctorate degrees other than PhD.