I want to add: I’ve had a few similar experiences of being rudely dismissed where the person doing the rude dismissing was just wrong about the issue at hand. I mean, you, dear reader, obviously don’t know whether they were wrong or I was wrong, but that’s the conclusion I drew.
Furthermore, I think Gell-Mann amnesia is relevant here: the reason I’m so confident that my counterpart was wrong in these instances is because I happened to have a better understanding of the particular issues—but for most issues I don’t have a better understanding than most other people. So this might be more common than my couple of experiences suggest.
I’ve had a roughly equal number of good experiences working with EAs, and overwhelmingly good experiences at conferences (EAGx Australia only).
I want to add: I’ve had a few similar experiences of being rudely dismissed where the person doing the rude dismissing was just wrong about the issue at hand. I mean, you, dear reader, obviously don’t know whether they were wrong or I was wrong, but that’s the conclusion I drew.
Furthermore, I think Gell-Mann amnesia is relevant here: the reason I’m so confident that my counterpart was wrong in these instances is because I happened to have a better understanding of the particular issues—but for most issues I don’t have a better understanding than most other people. So this might be more common than my couple of experiences suggest.
I’ve had a roughly equal number of good experiences working with EAs, and overwhelmingly good experiences at conferences (EAGx Australia only).