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  • Candelestine@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m not him, but now that I think about it, there is a tendency for many people to prefer the more generalized term.

    Where scientists don’t tend to use the word scientist as much, I can’t recall ever seeing the term in a journal article for instance. (I don’t read many, but I’ll read an abstract here and there) I’m not sure why. I expect it’s some categorization thing, where not all scientists perform research, so researcher is the more precise term. I’m just guessing as to the reason though, I do not have a PhD.

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      1 year ago

      I would guess because “scientist” has no qualifying definition and is also vague. I just conducted an experiment to see if a McDonald’s cups bottom would retain 4oz of Coca-Cola over the course of 5 days in a hot car (it didn’t). Yay I am a scientist.

      At least researcher or “research scientist” gives some idea of what the title is implying.