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by nerpderp82 1145 days ago
You are a data point of one, and I have no idea how well you can apply the scientific method to solve problems and understand the state of your system.

I am not judging you, my statement was a generalization.

I would also say, most people in the hard sciences that are not CS cannot code their way out of a paper bag.

I agree with you, some of the best, most rigorous thinkers I have come across had a liberal arts background.

This isn't a quantitative statement about the kinds of people, but the things they focus on. I think CS is hard, but one thing that seems to be repeated is that super capable people can get by operating in an unscientific open-loop fashion which causes cognitive blind spots, and those blind spots are in using experimentation and the scientific method to solve problems.