Science people aren’t immune to this. I went to ask about the voltage difference between a copper and aluminum pipe that only occurs when I hold it (Wands of Horus) and a student in the electrical engineering building just said “idk, static electricity or something.” The older guy seemed more reasonable in that he didn’t know exactly.
Or when I met someone recently and she said that “we’re Twitter mutuals…” but I know it’s completely false.
And it’s also the confidence in which people say such things that mislead people. I say things confidently when I’m confident about them. Does that mean I need to add a “super disclaimer” layer just to make sure that I’m 95%-100% confident and that people know this?
People in general are also very dismissive of new techniques, new ways of thinking, and so on. In the tech industry a lot of people don’t get Tailwind CSS and are hostile against it.
I’m very careful to know what people are experts in. I don’t ask them questions they can’t answer. I don’t try to entertain conversations where I’m just making random guesses with people.