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"Veritasium" (YT) - "The Big Misconception About Electricity" ?
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penfold:
Ignorance is however very powerful when used well, nobody progressed any greater understanding by reading a textbook and being satisfied with the answer. Ignorance in others is also very revealing of a teacher's abilities and often demonstrates weaknesses in the pedagogical representation of concepts.
TimFox:
Ignorance is the human condition.  None of us can possibly know everything.
Stupidity, however, is being proud of one's ignorance.
bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: TimFox on April 07, 2022, 03:38:37 pm ---Ignorance is the human condition.  None of us can possibly know everything.
Stupidity, however, is being proud of one's ignorance.

--- End quote ---

Neither ignorance nor stupidity have been of any help to engineering.
TimFox:

--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on April 07, 2022, 05:54:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: TimFox on April 07, 2022, 03:38:37 pm ---Ignorance is the human condition.  None of us can possibly know everything.
Stupidity, however, is being proud of one's ignorance.

--- End quote ---

Neither ignorance nor stupidity have been of any help to engineering.

--- End quote ---

That's right, but we can avoid stupidity.
penfold:

--- Quote from: TimFox on April 07, 2022, 05:55:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on April 07, 2022, 05:54:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: TimFox on April 07, 2022, 03:38:37 pm ---Ignorance is the human condition.  None of us can possibly know everything.
Stupidity, however, is being proud of one's ignorance.

--- End quote ---

Neither ignorance nor stupidity have been of any help to engineering.

--- End quote ---

That's right, but we can avoid stupidity.

--- End quote ---

Not disputing the fact, maybe the sentiment. A "lack of ignorance", or at least "the assumption of the correctness of one's own knowledge" is my core problem with most engineers, they bound forth into a problem with some assumption of how to solve it, and when questioned why they chose that approach, all too often do I hear "oh, it's like such a problem"... when it's not. They just seem to think that the human brain is just some endless store of historic knowledge and they struggle to rationalize a more "proper" solution. Just a side rant, I'm sure it's descriptive of nobody here, but sometimes ignorance is good, a little knowledge can too easily mask a lack of intelligence.
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