“Also in the opening paragraph is this tidbit: Someone at Stanford University also appears to have caught the blunder and edited Ford’s faculty page.”
The article says in CA you are not ALLOWED to call yourself a psychologist unless you are licensed. Odd, but ..
Most people in such discussions think of psychologists as only being practitioners having hung out a shingle or possibly at an agency. In some states, functioning at an agency under someone else's license is OK. In some states, it's not. In most such discussions, license concerned folks are quick to insist that there's no case where someone can be called or hold themselves out as a psychologist without a license.
In all the contexts I've ever been aware of, a prof of psychology with a psych PhD can call themselves a psychologist as long as they aren't trying to make people think that they offer counseling services but only teach. But that could be 20-40 year old laws.
A dear friend is a licensed PhD psychologist in CA and it took years and the hoops CA makes them jump through are endless.
If for no other reason than the respect I hold for what it took for my friend to gain the license, I’m grateful that Edsel is being called out on this point.