Which is easier?
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@otfrom I think there's a subset of humanities and engineering thinking where the two disciplines are expressions of the same thing and thus easier to move between, and subsets of each that are massively divergent and incommensurate.
@otfrom I might also gently push back on the question's initial state assumption that a humanities person doesn't know maths and vice versa.
@cford I completely agree on that. I just need to remember that different disciplines have different training and expectations though and that we aren't all the same
@otfrom Totally, I think training is a very good lens. If you're trained in deductive thinking (can happen in humanities), you're maths-ready. If your humanities practice is of the mystic, associative variety, you're not.
@cford I'm thinking about the space where we do engineering that supports an argument ("data science" for example)
@otfrom Teaching an engineer how to express themselves in their native language
@otfrom Math CS as a higher number of people on the spectrum who have rigidity. That rigidity is a plus with logic, but it makes it hard to explain how to adapt to different audiences
@otfrom see also: Reading Buses ban on hiring of bus drivers to drive buses, due to the profession's reputation for being sour misanthropes
Instead they hire people with healthy customer service attitudes and teach them to drive buses, which is much simpler than the other way round
