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Ask HN: Why are engineers taciturn?
I know a guy who double majored in EE and manufacturing engineering. He's very taciturn, or I guess you would say unfriendly and not prone to discuss the weather. The engineer who did the gossamer albatross was also described that way[0] as are many other engineers, but usually not the software kind. Why is this so?
[0] https://youtu.be/ketusOFabb4
- WWWade 12y agoI think they realize how unintelligent most people are.
- bediger4000 12y agoI think taciturnity arises from a general "engineering" orientation. You don't want to change more than one variable at a time, so you're very sparing in your actions in general. Or perhaps engineers don't want to make a bad situation worse: if you mess about too much, you'll never figure out what went wrong.
- kasey_junk 12y agoConfirmation bias.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 12y agoI'd like to believe that too, but I can't convince myself :).