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This is just a rehash of the same issue we have had for millenia: people trained in certain ways of doing things will try doing everything that way. Engineers,
by manicdee 7y ago
This is just a rehash of the same issue we have had for millenia: people trained in certain ways of doing things will try doing everything that way.
Engineers, doctors and accountants are often pilloried for their lack of people skills, yet we never complain about a counsellor’s inability to build a bridge.
- darawk 7y agoAlso of note, people trained in the humanities, presumably like this journalist, tend to treat everything as a literary analogy problem and proceed to reason about concrete issues based on how they "appear" or what other things they "sound like". At least the engineering approach is often useful for things.
- jyounker 7y agoThesis proven? :)
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoWhose bridge would be better to drive over?
- tmpz22 7y agoSwimming is the safer option.
- mam2 7y agothis is the funniest comeback I've read on this website. Plus it's true.
- danaliv 7y agoThat's because counselors, as a general rule, aren't routinely asked to build bridges. Engineers on the other hand do have to interact with other people, and more importantly, build things that affect people. Counselors also aren't generally defensive about their inability to build bridges.
- manicdee 7y agoCounsellors aren’t generally challenged about their inability to perform tasks outside their specialisation. It is a mistake to assume that all humans can develop good people skills with the same amount of time dedicated to training.
- pankajdoharey 7y agoI think solutions widely divergent or not should solve a problem and consider other problems that might be created along the way, and Engineers are quite adept at doing that thing called "consequence". The humanities people may not have solved any real world engineering problem and yet think they qualify to access Engineers?