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The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge.

This isn't a social media thing exclusively of course, I've met it in the real world too.

When I worked as a repair technician, members of the public would ask me for my diagnosis of faults and then debate them with me.

I've dedicated the second half of my life to understanding people and how they work, in this field it's even worse because everyone has opinions on that topic!

And yet my friend who has a physics PhD doesn't endure people explaining why his theories about battery tech are incorrect because of an article they read or an anecdote from someone's past.

So I'm curious, do some fields experience this more than others?

If you have a field of expertise do you find people love to debate you without taking into account the gulf of awareness, skills and knowledge?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Common workers, mostly yes. Common managers, lol no.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Im no expert but after 15 years in mail and parcel logistics I know shit. Ive been told Im "too close to the issue" to be objective. I even posted links to business services for a major international carrier to back up what I said and apparently any evidence I provide is "Biased"

So the only people you can turn to for factual answers are people with no fucking idea apparently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I have a MSc in Computational Media. I've had to read a lot of research on the dangers of social media, how harmful ideas spread online, and how people form unhealthy relationships with platforms. LW is still federated with LML, and I think my instance is still federated with Hexbear. So no, people don't give a quarter of a fuck what I have to say.

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

I do specialty work in electrical engineering systems, and I am meticulous and careful about what I say, because it appears that at a certain level in this field no one will question anything you say, because no one understands what you’re talking about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I'm a cloud engineer that works for a large software company that does R&D for 3D modeling companies, aero space, a couple alphabet agencies. They fucking hate me in /c/selfhosted

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

in mental health, yes actually, a surprisingly large amt of people look to me to be the expert. it's often just as challenging to help someone see that they're the expert on themselves.

you'd expect a lot of tiktok diagnoses and bizarro pseudo science attitudes, and while those do come up, they aren't that prevalent. and it's usually a symptom of something, i.e. someone with paranoid/grandiose delusions preaching med noncompliance.

I dont encounter anyone who thinks my work is just a joke, but plenty who believe I cant help them and they're better off on their own

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Imagine what working in aerospace feels like with the Boeing shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That would very much depend on whether you work for Boeing or not, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I do not work for them, but I've been making Boeing parts off and on for almost 19 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Promise not to hold you responsible for all the recent stuff

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

Ha. The VIP that I work for doesn't have time for me to tell them how to solve their technical issues. So, no, not currently. But in the past it was different.

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