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I don't think its ridiculous to expect a person trained in a specialty profession to be better than an untrained one. But yeah, the difference is that a purely
by la_barba 7y ago
I don't think its ridiculous to expect a person trained in a specialty profession to be better than an untrained one. But yeah, the difference is that a purely s/w oriented training teaches you nothing about the domain and the domain-specific challenges. So maybe having that domain expertise is a net benefit even if they are not the best at programming...
- FpUser 7y agoAgain, from my experience university educated scientists are better educated and as a result could better understand the actual problems needed to be solved and find very good and practical ways to accomplish it. As for what goes for "formal training" in modern colleges. Well I better not go there.
- la_barba 7y agoOh, I'm not disparaging scientists! I'm just not seein how the claim was ridiculous.