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<p>[QUOTE="rick, post: 67953, member: 1235"]well, letters mean about as much as anything else that can indicate something about a person.</p><p> </p><p>A man (or woman) can hold a PhD from an Ivy League education - that doesn't mean they are smart... by your analysis, it means they dropped 6 figures for a piece of paper they can hang on a wall. To some extent that is true. But it is also a good indicator that the person has the appropriate training and acquired the appropriate knowledge to gain that piece of paper.</p><p> </p><p>For the associations that you mentioned, it is also correct to say 'that person paid X amount of dollars to be a member'. It can also reason that if the person was out to swindle or misrepresent themselves in the hobby, they probably would not bother becoming a member of the ANA - because they would eventually be kicked out - which is worse than not ever becoming a member in the first place.</p><p> </p><p>In short, no matter what a business card or resume states, you can never know a person without spending the time and effort to know that person... so some people think those letters help tell others a little about themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rick, post: 67953, member: 1235"]well, letters mean about as much as anything else that can indicate something about a person. A man (or woman) can hold a PhD from an Ivy League education - that doesn't mean they are smart... by your analysis, it means they dropped 6 figures for a piece of paper they can hang on a wall. To some extent that is true. But it is also a good indicator that the person has the appropriate training and acquired the appropriate knowledge to gain that piece of paper. For the associations that you mentioned, it is also correct to say 'that person paid X amount of dollars to be a member'. It can also reason that if the person was out to swindle or misrepresent themselves in the hobby, they probably would not bother becoming a member of the ANA - because they would eventually be kicked out - which is worse than not ever becoming a member in the first place. In short, no matter what a business card or resume states, you can never know a person without spending the time and effort to know that person... so some people think those letters help tell others a little about themselves.[/QUOTE]
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