If you want to disagree with what I said, cool. I love to learn. It's not cool though to setup and attack a straw man.

That said.. why would someone even mention their degree if they weren't hoping the reader/listener would generalize about it?

Imagine if PhDs became the next protected class. That's at least an order of magnitude crazier than smoking being on most states' lists.

Oh, also, if you get tired of working @ Justin.TV... I could use a Computational Biology PhD :)

... especially if you're good with R.