There are a lot of smart and talented people on ILX. I would guess there are more than a few with advanced degrees, others working in a profession, others who qualify as scholars in one or more subjects, and still more who have no recognized credentials, but who have acquired wide or deep knowledge through their own unaided efforts.
My academic career was unspectacular; my only professional credential was issued from a community college; my professional career was in the wannabe profession of technical writing. I probably fit the classic profile of an autodidact, who knows a tremendous amount, but who is so isolated from the community that tests and ratifies 'correct' knowledge that my base of knowledge is amorphous and often uncertain.
Where would you place yourself among the following choices:
Poll Results
Option | Votes |
Autodidact - self-taught, but highly conversant in my fields of interest | 22 |
Scholar - a recognized contributor within a field of knowledge | 11 |
Professional - a doctor, lawyer, teacher, accountant or other recognized profession | 10 |
I don't think I fit comfortably into any of these categories | 8 |
I am disgruntled with this poll and wish to register a complaint | 8 |
I think I fit comfortably into more than one of these categories | 4 |
Polymath - a recognized contributor in multiple fields of knowledge | 1 |
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 8 July 2018 21:20 (six years ago)