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I call this the "PhD from MIT Syndrome". A few of them actually think that they know everything about everything no matter their field of study. The are polymat

I call this the "PhD from MIT Syndrome". A few of them actually think that they know everything about everything no matter their field of study. The are polymaths (in their own minds at least). Years ago, a physics professor scoffed at me when I cautioned him about storing 64-bit ints in 64-bit doubles. He said, "who is this that speaks to me as though I needed advice?" He could not understand why his program failed sporadically. Must be a bug in the compiler. It certainly wasn't his code.

existencebox 13y ago
You know, I once sat in on a discussion between one of the sysadmins on my team and a researcher; that went something like (barely paraphrased, only insofar as my memory is bad) "Did your code run in test? What is test? Do you deploy your code to the test environment before steamrolling a running production instance. No no, why would I ever do that." (after literally cursing out one of our sysadmins for not fixing why his code was no longer running for him.) Things like this are why I left academia back to industry, unfortunately for how many fantastic opportunities academia has to offer :/