khalid
Unelected Mod
Well, that, and the ceremony over the vat of human blood. Seriously though, its like any doctorate. It is about contributing something new to the field. That is really all a doctorate says, that you completed some extra schoolwork and contributed something novel to the field.Or do you hand a roomful of doctors like 10 pages of equations and greek symbols and go, "Recognize".
I knew a guy who got a doctorate in history. His dissertation was on the reaction that one particular newspaper had to the Truman/Dewey election prediction fiasco. An utterly narrow thing that you think wouldn't matter to anyone. Yet it was something that no one had looked into and researched before.