That kind of stupidity explains the insistence on "Dr." Biden.
The deception is effective.
An older Boston attorney I knew - Boston Latin, Harvard undergrad, Harvard J.D. - asserted that Harvard's PhD in Education was "trash." (He actually said a lot more and a lot worse than that, but I'll refrain).
I'm just guessing that U. Delaware PhD Ed. hovers in that same territory, probably even worse.
Actually, Jill Biden has an ED.D., not a Ph.D.
It is a degree designed for practitioners, not scholars.
I am sure there are a few thousand people out there who have an ED.D. and did a solid dissertation project that actually did help to solve some local problem, but Jill Biden is not one of these people.
I have a Ph.D., but it is not something I am proud of and I never corrected anyone who didn’t call me Dr.
But if I had a dime for each time someone said, “Well, CTH, you have a doctorate, so let me ask you this, you should know about X...” I’d be a millionaire.
It doesn’t work that way. I know what I don’t know. One thing you learn when going through doctoral study is that no one really knows anything.