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> Engineers are not smarter than anyone else. Imagine that This kind of anti-intellectualism is extremely harmful. In reality engineers generally are smarter t
by User23 4y ago
> Engineers are not smarter than anyone else. Imagine that
This kind of anti-intellectualism is extremely harmful. In reality engineers generally are smarter than average and that’s a good thing if you like things like safe aviation.
- Kye 4y agoSmarter in the thing they know about, sure. Most people have some area where they're above average. Software engineers just happen to have that area intersect with a marketable and, recently, socially valued skill. >> "if you like things like safe aviation." Safety is less about intelligence and more about diligence. Brilliant doctors still balk at checklists even though they save lives. Most engineering disasters happen because someone skipped a safety measure.
- User23 4y agoThe useful checklist is itself a product of higher than average intelligence. It’s entirely possible to diligently follow a useless or even harmful process.
- Kye 4y agoThe useful checklist is a product of experience. Items come from death and disaster caused by not doing what the item says to do.