When Did it Became Impossible to Say, ‘I Don’t Know’?

Re:When Did it Became Impossible to Say, ‘I Don’t Know’? by chongli on Saturday May 11, 2019 @09:04AM (#19885955)

instead of trying to guess it or bluff it, not sure why it has to be different

Because when you're being interviewed, you're not always dealing with another engineer. If you're being interviewed by a non-technical person with a business degree, then you are dealing with a person who is used to guessing/bluffing their way through things, rather than sitting down to the hard task of problem solving.

This may not be true of all business people, but it's quite common to those who might say they hated math in school. Math, and the sciences that heavily lean on it, are the only subjects where you can't get very far by bluffing or guessing.

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Re:When Did it Became Impossible to Say, ‘I Don’t Know’? by gumby on Saturday May 11, 2019 @09:50AM (#19886135)

I hate the “business people are idiots” trope but in this case the comment is right on.

Maths is no panacea but it is a tool of rigorous thinking. A certain kind of bluffing and even self-deception (people think this business idea is crazy but it’s not) is can be quite useful when it’s part of a rigorous framework.

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