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> They're full of very smart people, but they have had some very sloppy goofs over the years. That's because smart people tend to overestimate their abilities
by housemusicfan 3y ago
> They're full of very smart people, but they have had some very sloppy goofs over the years.
That's because smart people tend to overestimate their abilities and think they are invincible. In fact the comment posted just below this one is jumping to conclusions that this probably only applies to the inferior-intellect mechanical and electrical engineers.
- zeroCalories 3y agoI don't know if they're really overestimating their abilities. When I see things go wrong, most of the time people knew it was a possibilty, but it got deprioritized and forgotten about. Process helps avoid that and guardrails protect you when an unavoidable error does happen.