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Woman Receives First Ever PhD in Texting | Discoblog | Discover Magazine

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Saturday, August 08, 2009 3:44:00 PM GMT Friday, August 07, 2009 1:03:50 PM GMT

For many people, texting serves as a useful tool. But for British student Caroline Tagg, a study of text-messaging earned her a PhD. That’s right, Dr. Tagg now has a doctorate of philosophy in texting—the first of its kind.

To earn the degree, Tagg spent nearly four years studying a total of 11,000 text messages containing 190,000 words and sent by 235 people, all of which she compiled and analyzed in a database. The Telegraph reports:

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