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Re:Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience do the people yo... by luckydude on Friday August 18, 2017 @04:35PM (#15049514)
I dunno. It seems more weird to me that the engineer, um, "engineer" as in good at math, good at seeing a whole system, doesn't apply those skills to their own compensation package.

It would be a whole lot less weird to me if we were talking about, I dunno, anyone who isn't good at systems/math.

It's just a big blind spot, at least it is in the USA. I don't get it.

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Re:Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience do the people yo... by Jugurtha on Friday August 18, 2017 @05:21PM (#15049821)
It should be the case.. Then again, there's the "conjunction fallacy"[0]. There's the case where the staggering majority of participants who were trained in probability got the test wrong.

Anyway, thanks for the input. Fascinating how we function.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy

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