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Thanks for introducing me to the term "half-life of knowledge". > An engineering degree went from having a half life of 35 years in ca. 1930 to about 10 years
by nomilk 5y ago
Thanks for introducing me to the term "half-life of knowledge".
> An engineering degree went from having a half life of 35 years in ca. 1930 to about 10 years in 1960. A Delphi Poll showed that the half life of psychology as measured in 2016 ranged from 3.3 to 19 years depending on the specialty, with an average of a little over 7 years.
This is very interesting and makes me wonder what it is for tech careers, e.g. web devs, data scientists etc.
- hallway_monitor 5y agoFor javascript developers it's about six months! Kidding aside, it seems you could estimate it by asking, what portion of the knowledge I use did I learn 20 years ago? Then 10, 5, 1. For me it seems to be somewhere around ten years.