Leadership in technology seems to have had a real drop in general science/math training. Like, the fundamentals. One manager I had a few years ago could not, fo

Leadership in technology seems to have had a real drop in general science/math training. Like, the fundamentals. One manager I had a few years ago could not, for the life of him, understand why cold air falls. I had such a hard time with this we went to the break room for experiments, but he just wouldn't fold. "Aw, it's just blowing air down!" More recently, I've been running into an awful lot of people who want to get rid of statistics even as a general concept, I suppose in favor of LLMs powered by "universal data". My jaw's getting a little cramped from biting my tongue to keep from asking, "Why do you think statistics was invented?". One of these bumpkins is going to get someone killed replacing a safety system with a rando public model that's been trained mostly on swearing and antisemitism.