[R-SIG-Mac] quartz.save()

Murray Jorgensen maj at stats.waikato.ac.nz
Tue Apr 15 09:15:09 CEST 2008


Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Todd A. Johnson wrote:
> 
>> Hi Dr. Ripley:
> 
> Please try reading my signature block.
> 

"Prof" is not universally ranked above "Dr". I remember my first job in 
Canada where academics were often miffed at being addressed as 
"Professor" rather than "Doctor". It seemed to imply that they didn't 
have a PhD.

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Dr Murray Jorgensen      http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html
Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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