This is a great idea! I think there should definitely be more emphasis placed on knowing what you don't know in a good education system. Even something like kno

This is a great idea! I think there should definitely be more emphasis placed on knowing what you don't know in a good education system. Even something like knowing what areas of study exist can be quite valuable. I had a friend acting as a research assistant to a biology masters student who was tasked with removing duplicates from an Excel file. The masters student said it would take about four hours because that's how long it usually took her to do it. My friend made a simple script in about an hour that then did the work in effectively no time. I am by no means a proponent of the "everyone should learn to code" movement but I think there could have been a lot of time saved here if the biologist just new the shallowest fact that computers are good for doing tedious things. Obviously specialization is still very important but I feel introducing more shallow learning could really make a difference in both communication and innovation. If you like this general topic Terence Tao has an interesting piece in a similar vein on assigning partial credit for true-false questions [1] that was posted on HN a while back [2]. [1] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/how-to-assign-partial-credit-on-an-exam-of-true-false-questions/ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/how-to-assign-part... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11821903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11821903