It does not mean much...What was his desertation?
Remember, there is a system to college education:
The Bachelors degree is designed to teach you the fundamental principles of a subject
The Masters degree is designed to specialise you in one are of that subject to the fullest extent of the known knowledge
The PhD is allow you to make an original contribution to your area of study;
The most important area of the PhD is the desertation, otherwise PhD level courses themselves are the same as Master level courses.
If he did were 16 classes, or 48 credit hours, why did they give him a PhD?
I did 39 credit hours plus a Theses for my Masters degree, why am I not seeing the wisdom in what Shaq has done??? I had to sit in every single class I did, take quizzes, do homework, write exams in front of a professor, and do labs in a lab environment...
How can you do a PhD by correspondence? I have cheated for 2 women and 1 man in my life; one woman whom I took classes for, the other I wrote all the papers for. The guy came from a French speaking West African country, was having a hell of a time with English, and the only way he got his As was that I wrote all his homework and papers at UT Arlington for him. The bitch is now an arrogant pharmacist in Houston, married to a white woman, driving a 2010 Mercedes Benz, and behaving as if he is the one who crossed the ocean in a single engine plane in 1927. I do not talk to the bitch.