I've matured beyond getting upset about it, but I do wish for multiple reasons that your average American would be more open to different methods of expression on the screen besides just traditional Hollywood narrative.
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Do you ever read conversations on Era about your profession/area of expertise, and shake your head at how wrong people are?
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To be fair, not exclusive to era in any sense. Media and news points only to a very specific part of what they do. Mainly because stability, aid, and support operations are boring to onlookers.
I'm kinda the opposite! I'm a professor and I actually love to see threads about classes, schools, etc., because it's usually the student perspective and that's helpful.
But I'm also a researcher, so... yeah. :/
But I'm also a researcher, so... yeah. :/
I work as a UX- / UI-Designer and yeah.. Let's say I can't agree with a lot of people and their opinion about design.
As a physician, yes all the time. But I don't blame people on here for it...even with extensive discussions with patients on various diseases and treatment options, there's so much bullshit being touted by "experts" that if you don't have any medical background, you'd have a hard time differentiating BS from facts. Even doctors sadly are not immune to believing something without doing their own research. It's easier to read a clickbaity article that provides a general summary of findings vs reading a NEJM journal that goes into the gritty details of research methods and results while STILL questioning the validity of certain studies.
As a lead software engineer I'm usually baffled by the people here who push back on my insistence that being quiet and introverted are things I view as career limiting in our field 🤷♀️.
I guess I shouldn't be shocked that a niche internet community almost overwhelmingly skews towards introversion but some of the specific vitriol I've gotten for even suggesting it is... A bit much.
I guess I shouldn't be shocked that a niche internet community almost overwhelmingly skews towards introversion but some of the specific vitriol I've gotten for even suggesting it is... A bit much.
It's not just about what you do for work, it's also how ignorant we can be despite thinking we know about the world.
I work in retail, it's incredible how Americans think we treat retail workers compared to how they are treated and paid.
Myself I'm Swedish and would normally consider myself decently informed on a lot of things. But the BLM movement in the last year or so has opened my eyes on how bad some things are in a lot of places that, while I knew there were issues, I had no idea HOW bad it is.
I work in retail, it's incredible how Americans think we treat retail workers compared to how they are treated and paid.
Myself I'm Swedish and would normally consider myself decently informed on a lot of things. But the BLM movement in the last year or so has opened my eyes on how bad some things are in a lot of places that, while I knew there were issues, I had no idea HOW bad it is.
Yep. Working in the Entertainment industry for a while now, but I just let is slide most of the time because last time I tried explaining something (usually it's about how something is produced or how rights/contracts work) I got shat on.
Same. Solid information gets hard to dig up these days so professional voices are a breath of fresh air. Though I do understand the hesitation from but professional doing risk and the headache of trying to explain to people who are willfully ignoring professional expertise.
As someone else in the public sector, I fully agree, though I don't find it surprising, or even alarming in some respects. There's a lot of arcane, dull shit that goes behind how governments work and there are much more interesting things to fill your life is. It's not like we teach people in the education system sufficiently.
The thing I can't fathom is how little people seem to grasp that organisations are made up of lots of people in lots of roles who make lots of decisions. As if any move by big companies are made on a whim rather than a series of escalated decisions through particular organisational mechanisms.
One of my saltiest revelations when entering the working world is how much success relies on people skills, even the most self-sufficient roles that you'd think you can do alone in a room, you'll still have to deal with a client or a manager at least.
But oh well, guess that's how the world works. And it's not I'm a savant pulling off genius level moves on my lonesome anyway.
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People are really bad at drawing conclusions from academic articles and reading critically. It's not enough to read the abstract and use it as some unimpeachable evidence of whatever point someone is trying to make.
Also using info graphics as some kind of final answer on what are ultimately very complicated social issues in which things like framing and definitions make all the difference.
Also using info graphics as some kind of final answer on what are ultimately very complicated social issues in which things like framing and definitions make all the difference.
All the time but i just ignore it. No reason to waste my time when people are always doubling down on their ignorance/misconceptions.
It wouldn't. People are very convinced that their feelings are true and they could not be wrong. Sometimes things are so very wrong that even if i wanted to ii don't know where to start.
As someone who has worked in multiple areas of the healthcare industry (health insurance, retail pharmacy, hospital), of course.
And even people who work within that industry but only have one perpective on it can be way off the mark too.
And even people who work within that industry but only have one perpective on it can be way off the mark too.
Yes, I work in water and power delivery in CA. It's not so much how wrong they are but the inability to see things from outside how it effects them.
Edit: Was also in the US Navy and operated nuclear plants on the ships. So you could add both military and nuclear power to the things people talk about but don't know anything about.
Edit: Was also in the US Navy and operated nuclear plants on the ships. So you could add both military and nuclear power to the things people talk about but don't know anything about.
Eh. I'm a quiet, introverted programmer with 14 years of professional experience, and I think you're kind of a dick for suggesting that. You might actually be getting the right amount of vitriol?
I'm a datacenter technician, so whenever "servers" or "infrastructure" come up from the perspective of a user of cloud services, there's a lot of wrong info. But the actual IT workers here tend to know their shit.
Most of the time when people post a scientific journal article to back their claim they have no idea what it is actually saying.
Yes as someone with over a decade covering/reporting live sports and producing call in shows.
I'm always baffled by what sports fans think is important (play calling/free agency/ the backup QB/Goalie etc)
Era is by no means the worst I have seen.
I like the sports community here
I have had a few conversations where I tried to explain an organization's position where I was told I know nothing because they wanted to repeat silly roundtable sports talking points about elite quarterbacks and only championships matter.
Typical blah blah in my industry
There is a lack of perspective to understand vs just opinions being thrown out on anything especially if you know what occurred.
I'm always baffled by what sports fans think is important (play calling/free agency/ the backup QB/Goalie etc)
Era is by no means the worst I have seen.
I like the sports community here
I have had a few conversations where I tried to explain an organization's position where I was told I know nothing because they wanted to repeat silly roundtable sports talking points about elite quarterbacks and only championships matter.
Typical blah blah in my industry
There is a lack of perspective to understand vs just opinions being thrown out on anything especially if you know what occurred.
I cannot go into Quantum Physics threads for my own sanity and can barely manage other Physics threads. I don't know what it'd be like to be anything approching an expert on areas like computer science that are far more frequently discussed here lol.
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All the time, but mainly when it comes to people telling teachers to organize and strike when it's illegal in multiple states.
reading people post on here about food hurts me emotionally every time
so many people dont know shit about food 😭
so many people dont know shit about food 😭
Whenever anyone brings up Common Core, or No Child Left Behind, or testing in schools, literally everything they say is wrong. It's so wrong that it's almost impossible to correct them, because they don't even have the basic comprehension of what those things are, much less the capacity to understand the incorrect thing they are saying. Often the part they're complaining about has absolutely nothing to do with the actual topic.
The problem seems to start with the media narrative, picking up on complainers, because complainers always make the most noise. Uninformed journalists then say things that are just flat-out wrong, and then other journalists and social media pick up on those things and repeat them until, to the general public, the lies become "truth". There are journalists who stick to facts, or actually do some research, but their stories get lost among all the other noise.
And then people on ResetEra pick up the false media narrative through rumors, guesswork, social media, and maybe occasionally actually reading a misleading article, and then they spout off as if they are content-area experts, while offering no sources for the lies they're repeating.
I've always assumed the same thing happens with every other area of expertise, which is why I keep my mouth shut and don't post very often.
The problem seems to start with the media narrative, picking up on complainers, because complainers always make the most noise. Uninformed journalists then say things that are just flat-out wrong, and then other journalists and social media pick up on those things and repeat them until, to the general public, the lies become "truth". There are journalists who stick to facts, or actually do some research, but their stories get lost among all the other noise.
And then people on ResetEra pick up the false media narrative through rumors, guesswork, social media, and maybe occasionally actually reading a misleading article, and then they spout off as if they are content-area experts, while offering no sources for the lies they're repeating.
I've always assumed the same thing happens with every other area of expertise, which is why I keep my mouth shut and don't post very often.
Quite a few times. I've even had the pleasure of seeing incorrect takes on literal things I myself have done.
I was talking with a friend a while back about why people keep thinking that know so much about the games industry, and I think part of the problem is that we have a lot of roles that share titles--but not necessarily responsibilities--with roles in the film industry. Producer, for example. Or Technical Director.
A lot of people think they know the film industry (and honestly I'll bet they don't) and therefore games, too.
A lot of people think they know the film industry (and honestly I'll bet they don't) and therefore games, too.
Sometimes. I have done IT work and cable installations. Only time I have ever wanted to correct someone is when it comes to cable technicians being late. Usually its because the house before you needed more work than initially allotted. And the job is not pulled because there aren't any other techs in the area to take it.
Also how they think. I just take it as reflective of how the general public receives us.
