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If you ask a room full of 100 engineers if they are better engineers than their peers, 80 of the 100 will say yes.
by bradhe 4y ago
If you ask a room full of 100 engineers if they are better engineers than their peers, 80 of the 100 will say yes.
- fckgnad 4y agoExactly. My post is the realization of two things: 1. All of us reading this post are more likely to be part of the 80. We are all likely delusional and we are all likely to be wrong. 2. The second thing to realize is that one person out of those 100, is Actually better then everyone else. Who is he and how do we find him? I'm curious about whether this person said yes or no.
- pwndByDeath 4y agoWhat are your basis for better? How many dimensional degrees of freedom are there in better?
- koolba 4y agoIt’s probably true too! The peers are likely the less astute engineers who are stuck at the office rather than traveling to a cushy engineer conference.
- Gud 4y agoOr they’re too busy working, filling in for the engineers networking at a conference…
- ycombobreaker 4y ago"better" is a projection of various personal features onto a single axis. If you ask those 100 engineers to predict their strengths and weaknesses relative to the room, they'd probably do an OK job of it. Asking who is "better" is asking for that, plus their subjective weights of those skills. You should expect that to be a pointless exercise.