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There’s no way to say this without sounding arrogant but what you described is pretty much only true for the US. Apart from an underfunded and understaffed education system there seems to be just a comparatively very low emphasis on the importance of general knowledge. I’ve had shocking encounters with Americans in that regard. It’s not everyone of course but on average it really is noticeable.
I’m non-US and work at a university. Some of the academics I can’t imagine surviving in the real world. The only way I can explain it is they get a PhD and then the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to everything, but they don’t evolve on it. And they’re weirdly incredibly gullable—like, in their 30s and vulnerable to scams and misinformation your grandma would immediately pick up on. You get concerned for what else they may be teaching students because kids fresh out of high school often trust adults and these adults put off an identity of being experts.
You want to say to them, “If it’s not about phylogenetics, don’t listen to a single fucking thing this person says no matter how confident they sound.”
There’s no way to say this without sounding arrogant but what you described is pretty much only true for the US. Apart from an underfunded and understaffed education system there seems to be just a comparatively very low emphasis on the importance of general knowledge. I’ve had shocking encounters with Americans in that regard. It’s not everyone of course but on average it really is noticeable.
I’m non-US and work at a university. Some of the academics I can’t imagine surviving in the real world. The only way I can explain it is they get a PhD and then the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to everything, but they don’t evolve on it. And they’re weirdly incredibly gullable—like, in their 30s and vulnerable to scams and misinformation your grandma would immediately pick up on. You get concerned for what else they may be teaching students because kids fresh out of high school often trust adults and these adults put off an identity of being experts.
You want to say to them, “If it’s not about phylogenetics, don’t listen to a single fucking thing this person says no matter how confident they sound.”