cassac
Joined 6 years ago
Joined 6 years ago
But I do know that a lot of people across a lot of topics over estimate their ability because they don’t know what they don’t know. Science as a topic isn’t special in this regard.
Jr devs are great examples. Your code is garbage and I am brilliant, just let me change this thing here and OH MY THE SYSTEM IS BROKE PLEASE HELP ME! Intermediate knowledge and negative attitudes.
Topics: Science, Sports, Cooking, Driving, Programming… literally anything.
I didn’t need a study to know this.
I think the equivalent today would be forcing kids to do tech work, as we are out of the industrial age and into the Information Age. But tech work isn’t dirty and going to kill you so there is less incentive to force it on marginalized groups.
That’s why I think it was maybe just a perfect storm of circumstances.