The two comments you and Jiro wrote while composing mine actually made me think about a possibly unclear formulation: I should have written “are not based in any significant way on” instead of “don’t have anything to do with”.
You actually just described what I wrote as:
“Loss of credit because he doesn’t have a PhD does not necessarily equal the gain of credit because he does have a PhD”
The two comments you and Jiro wrote while composing mine actually made me think about a possibly unclear formulation: I should have written “are not based in any significant way on” instead of “don’t have anything to do with”.
You actually just described what I wrote as: “Loss of credit because he doesn’t have a PhD does not necessarily equal the gain of credit because he does have a PhD”