I'm a physicist and I cringed hard when the HEP people in my department started pushing out arXiv papers about covid-19. I see this a lot in CS too. It's easy

I'm a physicist and I cringed hard when the HEP people in my department started pushing out arXiv papers about covid-19. I see this a lot in CS too. It's easy for people in these more abstract fields to look at another problem space and see patterns that remind them of their own work. They seem to discount experience and familiarity.