[Dalewyn]

The thing is the IT community should know better. You know what goes in airplanes and missiles? Computers.

Not understanding how high 60,000 feet (roughly 18km) is is embarassing when you're an engineer of some description.

This phenomenon is something I've noticed with other subjects too; like a lot of the IT community not understanding how life works outside of cities when we talk about transport and infrastructure.

IT professionals affect the world in very significant ways with their engineering, but they also seem like some of the most naive/ignorant people I know of. I'm greatly interested in why this seems so.

[latexr]

> but they also seem like some of the most naive/ignorant people I know of. I'm greatly interested in why this seems so.

It’s the arrogance associated with it. A kind of “I understand this complicated thing (computers) so everything else is trivial to me”. To learn something, you need the humility to say “I don’t understand”.

[koofdoof]

There is likely a selection bias at work here. Anyone who correctly identifies that they lack the domain knowledge to leave a well informed comment will not post. So most posts will naturally be by the uninformed or arrogant, but we have no idea what the ratio between these two groups is because people who dont post are impossible to count.

[jaggs]

Dunning Kruger?

[voidfunc]

> but they also seem like some of the most naive/ignorant people I know of. I'm greatly interested in why this seems so.

Combination of poor social skills and arrogance.