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> software engineers feeling entitled to have an unfunded opinion on scientific disciplines outside of their own field of expertise There's an XKCD about this
by nix0n 3y ago
> software engineers feeling entitled to have an unfunded opinion on scientific disciplines outside of their own field of expertise
There's an XKCD about this behavior[0]. The title is actually "Physicists", but I also have seen it on HN (especially with psychology).
[0]https://xkcd.com/793/ https://xkcd.com/793/
- User23 3y agoWell with psychology it’s more fair. Thanks to the replication crisis we can say with a straight face that psychologists aren’t even experts on psychology. As usual the demonstrable expertise in the field lies with the pragmatic types. For psychology that means salesmen, pickup artists, advertisers, conmen, propagandists, high school queen bees, and so on.
- dekhn 3y agoThis is known as the "Why don't you just assume a spherical cow?"