On Mon, 10 May 2010 10:10:48 -0700 (PDT), trag
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On May 6, 10:59 pm, "Brian M. Scott" wrote:

On Thu, 6 May 2010 08:41:43 -0700 (PDT), trag
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My experience is that while (some) scientists may have a
rational way of thinking within their specialty, most of
them do not apply that skill outside their specialty.
At the very least, this is true of most of the engineers
I've worked with.

Engineer != scientist.

While partly true, your equation is irrelevant to the
conversation at hand.

It manifestly isn't an equation, and it is not irrelevant to
the statement to which it was a response: you cannot
legitimately use engineers as evidence to support a
statement about scientists.

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