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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is why you go to subject matter experts.

/Software development rant

[–] Philharmonic3 -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

/fucking everything rant. Scholars and management alike are terrible at this

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As others replies have said, it seems that her expertise was welcomed in the community.

Having spent my fair share of time in grad school, my experience with the arrogant scholar trope is...not exactly what this meme suggests. Academics certainly can have strongly held beliefs, but often are very good at gauging their own certainty. If a professor is lamenting that data taken around 3:17pm always looks bad, and the janitor says "well the electric tram goes by around then"

well, I have never met a professor or postdoc who wouldn't take that very seriously.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

In software development you have contractors and product owners who forge ahead and do things without consulting subject matter experts. This often leads to spaghetti code and rushed garbage when things ultimately need to be patched.