Is "alt text" a colloquialism understood by laymen? I typically use the term "text alternatives" when speaking with clients. It's a specific attribute, it might be supplanted by `aria-label`, etc
Meta: Super confusing how the way the links are formatted makes them look like strikethrough-text; this link explains the term if you’re not familiar with it:
Interesting. I know a lot of websites are designed with a font size of 16pt in mind, and you'll tend to encounter issues if you set the size to anything else. I find that rather a shame.
No, why do you think it is? You can do science in an educational setting, and education often relies on results from psychology or biology, but it's not a science.
Some would argue that educationalists often experiment on children, but that's not the goal (and of course that's a minor aspect of education).
Ironically, Sir Isaac Newton (whom I'd consider a scientist) actually earned a Bachelor of Arts. I would say the degree doesn't matter, the practice of science is what makes a scientist.
> Ironically, Sir Isaac Newton (whom I'd consider a scientist) actually earned a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Science didn't exist until the mid 19th century. Historically, the four faculties of arts, law, divinity, and theology each had bachelors and terminal (eventually standardized as doctor for all except arts, and master for arts) degrees. The explosion of other degrees (and masters as an intermediate degree, rather than a terminal one, in many fields) is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Oh come on, most attorneys have Juris Doctor degrees, we don't call them Dr. Lawyer.
There are lots of people we call "doctor." The ones with Ph.D's. And some of them are lawyers, and are addressed as "doctor."
Also interesting: There was an HN comment a few weeks ago that pointed to a helpful link which demonstrated that the idea of "doctor" didn't start with medical doctors and spread to other disciplines, it was the other way around.
> There are lots of people we call "doctor." The ones with Ph.D's
No, the ones with doctorates. A JD's technically a doctorate, a graduate degree, but it would be silly to expect people call you "doctor" because you have one.
Which is indicative of how the word has changed; scientist now means more "knowledge worker" than it does "person doing careful experiments to discover new things".
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