i do kind of believe that getting a bachelor's degree makes you stupid about your field, specifically in the way where you believe you know a lot more than you actually do about the field of study you were in. if you are extremely lucky and have some very good instructors, they will impress upon you how much there still is to learn, but a lot of people leave a four year program with a little too much confidence in their own expertise
this is my theory for why bachelors holders are constantly on here using their degree to leverage an air of superiority while saying a bunch of demonstrably false bullshit, but you never see masters or phd holders comment on anything outside of their thesis topic and occasionally as an addition to the bachelor holder's essay going "hi, phd in same field here, there is no consensus on what this person is asserting and they are full of shit".
relatedly. saying "i have a degree in x field" is actually not a replacement for citing sources. some of you seem to be leaning way too heavily on it as a replacement for the due diligence you were supposed to learn in that very program, and i think you should be embarrassed about that. ultimately most of the time you shouldn't even need to disclose your degree except as a positionality statement, because your work should stand on its own and demonstrate your expertise. people should believe what you say is true not because you wave around a piece of paper, but because you show them why it is true using the skills and knowledge that paper is supposed to represent. by not doing that you are undermining the work of your colleagues in the field and eroding trust with the general public. cite some goddamn sources or do not say anything at all.
