>It's kind of ironic how hackers, usually extremely data driven people, tend to fall into these fallacies just as easily as others as soon as it stops pertainin

>It's kind of ironic how hackers, usually extremely data driven people, tend to fall into these fallacies just as easily as others as soon as it stops pertaining to engineering. Much of the data I've seen has suggested that, of all the hard sciences, "engineering" is the one most fraught with magical thinking. It seems to be populated by people looking to shape the problems they face to the solutions they already know -- whether or not those solutions are the best that can be reasonably implemented. It is the worst part of my experience transitioning from physics to software: everyone seems to go about citing their clever catch-phrases as fact.