The dirty secret of expertise is that most experts in any field would rank their own profession's average competence somewhere between alarming and indictable
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Agreed when it comes to mine, anyway.
But a majority of experts rank their own personal professional competence way above the average for the profession.
Ha ha only serious...
In the field of economics, the disease is out of control
@Daojoan I recall it once being said that a specialist is one who knows more and more about less and less. So, in the asymptotic limit, the ideal expert is one who knows so much about a whole lotta nothing.
I knew a guy who was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year who firmly believed that setting the text encoding to “binary” on a database column meant the column was “encrypted” and thus you could just insert plaintext passwords there without worry.
@Daojoan are they right?
