[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod at mccme.ru
Thu Jul 30 12:23:55 UTC 2009


> The company I work for employs a large number of people with with
> Doctorates in mathematics and quantum mechanics. Most are opinionated
> and argumentative but do not read wikipedia in areas that they have
> expertise in. The last discussion I had with one of them over a
> wikipedia article went "If I don't forget what I read there I'll have to
> edit it, but I'm not prepared to have argue about it all weekend again."
>
> Those with professional expertise are prepared to argue an issue with
> colleagues, they are unlikely to spend several days over it on a web
> site, particularly if they have start off by explaining basic concepts.
>
>
This is exacly my experience as a professional in physics and, in
particular, in quantum mechanics.

Cheers
Yaroslav




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