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It’s a fundamental part of (reliable) engineering. Many a person has died historically when in ‘harder’ engineering someone was hiding things, and someone being able to acknowledge their lack of knowledge is key to not getting into that state - or being able to progress/grow at all, IMO.

Chernobyl being one prominent example.

At least in a field like engineering where actual successful results/working output matters, anyway.

There are other fields where the same dynamics are not in play.

One cannot solve (or even avoid) a problem that one refuses to acknowledge exists, after all.