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Re:The importance of stupidity in scientific research by iqster on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @08:51AM (#2965337)
When you operate in uncharted waters, independent thinking makes for a good compass. As someone who studied comp sci in undergrad, I felt I didn't develop these skills as much as folks in the humanities.
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Re:The importance of stupidity in scientific research by pradocchia on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @11:29AM (#2965908)
I don't know if it's independent thinking so much as synthetic thinking. In comp sci, you get a lot of mileage out of analytic thinking. It maps nicely to linear processes in a computer, and to the rigor of programming languages.

So much mileage, in fact, that your non-analytic faculties atrophy from disuse.

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