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Originally Posted by newB
Where are you all getting that "Doctor Peterson" is an actual PhD? The provided "Dr Math" about page says that the replies are by students. Looking through the staff pages I see no photo of anyone named Peterson. I have no idea if there is or isn't a Dr Peterson, but considering the pages you cite say that responses are by math students I wouldn't be so eager to say the author is undoubtedly a PhD despite signing his responses as "Doctor" so-and-so. |
I was skeptical when I first found that source too. It's difficult to tell exactly who "Doctor Peterson" is, but Dr Math is a page hosted by Drexel University, where "Math Doctors" answer questions. Students and teachers send in their questions and various Math Professors answer them. Each response is from a "Doctor someone" ...
I guess you're right that it's not concrete proof. It is however more likely than not that a University would not allow people to misrepresent themselves on their properties as being Doctors if they were in fact not.
In addition there has been several publications by teams of people associated with that site, and each one lists the authors as being PHDs.