A big problem I've found with academic types is belief that their intuition translates to other areas of the sciences or worse, engineering. There are many flav

A big problem I've found with academic types is belief that their intuition translates to other areas of the sciences or worse, engineering. There are many flavors of academics, but experimentalists trying to perform engineering-like work is an amazing exercise in futility. There is immense difference between finding out how something works and getting it to work in a consistent and repeatable way. I imagine the nuances across other disciplines are similar