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The term “PP” usually refers to the Phony Police. The Phony Police are not real people, but rather feelings of doubt or insecurity in our own abilities. The PP enforce the “impostor syndrome” (as in “Ack – they are really going to find out what a fraud I am now!!!”) that many graduate students experience.
