90% of Prius owners have PhD's, apparently

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  1. superjackie

    superjackie Junior Member

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    We went to test drive an orphaned plug-in Prius the other day. The thing had $10,000 worth of dealer add-ons on it. TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS! The idiots took a $40 K car and turned it into a $50 K Prius. Anyway, we are test driving the thing, and the salesman says to us, straightfaced, "This car is for smart people, 90% of Prius owners have a PhD."
    :doh:

    But what percentage of Prius owners have some sort of advanced degree? Is there data somewhere on it?
     
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    we can take a poll here, i guess, though the results will probably be skewed. 90% phd is ridiculous given how many people actually have phds.

    for my part, i have an MS in EECS
     
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    From time to time I get these stupid emails offering a PhD by mail from what the email calls a "prestigious non-accredited university." The term is an oxymoron. But it got me to thinking. So at the time I happened to have a program for making certificates, and a color printer, and the upshot is that I now have a Doctor of Bullshit (PhB ) degree from the nonexistent East Dakota Institute of Technocracy.
     
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    Some car salespeople must have a PhD in MIS (making idiotic statements).:rolleyes:
     
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    I wouldn't be surprised if there were a lot of Prius owners with advanced degrees of some sort.

    Joke about what one kid in Palo Alto (Stanford University) says when challenged by another kid: "I bet my dad has more Nobel Prizes than yours!!"

    Or as my wife says, BS, MS, PhD. We know what BS is. MS is more of it. And PhD is Piled higher and Deeper. I happen to have a PhD, and my wife likes remind me what it stands for when I do something dumb.
     
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    90% is a ridiculous number! If I were making something up, I'd go with Barney Stinson's old standby from How I Met Your Mother: 83%. But even that seems high, even for just Prius owners with some sort of degree, much less advanced.
     
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    crewdog Acting Ensign Prius Prime

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    To paraphrase a country song, "I'm the Phd of my double-wide trailer"
     
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    My PhD is in Electrical Engineering, but 90%???

    JeffD
     
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    I wish there was a quick way to post an emoticon in appreciation of a poster's humor, but we only have the "thanks." :D
     
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    I have a Prius highway Degree
     
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    I have a doctorate but it's not a PhD. Does that count?

    PS: Do you realize how may superheros have advanced degrees? And so do their arch enemies, BTW.

    Do you think Victor Von Doom ("Dr. Doom") drives a Prius? [​IMG]
     
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    My extended family is perhaps 50% PhD's, but the only Prius owner is a lowly MD.
     
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    unbelievable!

    Although I do have a PhD degree of environmental science.
     
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    I have a PhD from the school of hard knocks, it isn't worth much, but it does help me to spot BS easier.:eek:
     
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    I have a lowly BA. A couple of years ago my wife got her JD...
     
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    JimN Let the games begin!

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    Dr. Doom would drive a Tesla. Spiderman would drive a Prius--if he could afford the payments.
     
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    The Borg would drive (what else) a Cube
     
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    But wait a minute! You got rid of the "doctor" part of the title! :confused:
     
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    I confess I have a PhD in Materials Engineering.
    1st Prius 2002 1st Gen
    2nd Prius 2012 PiP base model.
    Somebody want to start a Google doc spreadsheet for polling?
     
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    oh in addition to my real degree, i also have a PhD in parallel parking. or maybe my wife is just easily impressed.
     
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