Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? (2019) [pdf]

Post by jknoepfler » Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 4:18 AM UTC

robocat wrote: post #20

jknoepfler wrote: post #9

I think the elephant in the room for this study is the high bullshit scores of immigrants. If you're a non-native language speaker and someone asks if you understand something, you're probably used to having to figure it out offline - but you might say "yes" anyway, for a myriad of reasons. Something I find disingenuous in this study is the failure to follow up on competency. "High bullshit index" individuals claim w…

> the high bullshit scores of immigrants I think that statement is far too broad: I can think of some fairly bullshit free cultures, like many Scandinavian countries. I can also think of people from specific religions that I generally find to be bullshitty, versus people from the same country but a different religion that appear to me to be much more honest. Also a lot of people I meet from the USA appear to me to be…

Post by a1369209993 » Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 4:41 AM UTC

robocat wrote: post #20

jknoepfler wrote: post #9

I think the elephant in the room for this study is the high bullshit scores of immigrants. If you're a non-native language speaker and someone asks if you understand something, you're probably used to having to figure it out offline - but you might say "yes" anyway, for a myriad of reasons. Something I find disingenuous in this study is the failure to follow up on competency. "High bullshit index" individuals claim w…

> the high bullshit scores of immigrants I think that statement is far too broad: I can think of some fairly bullshit free cultures, like many Scandinavian countries. I can also think of people from specific religions that I generally find to be bullshitty, versus people from the same country but a different religion that appear to me to be much more honest. Also a lot of people I meet from the USA appear to me to be…

Post by birdyrooster » Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 4:55 AM UTC

wrnr wrote: post #12

yarg wrote: post #4

I've seen too many bullshitters in the software industry - people whose technical capabilities extend only as far as their ability to convince non-technical managers that they know what the fuck they're talking about. I've seen these people be promoted to positions where they can do serious damage, no longer a mere developer not knowing what the hell you're meant to be able to do - but a lead developer crippling an e…

I think it's unfair to only blame developers for this bad culture in our industry. At every layer of the stack the same things happen. At my local government they reformed child benefits and needed a new IT system to handle it, of-course we ended up with the over-engineered enterprise architecture of micro-services running on kubernetes, communicating over an event bus with CQRS, continuous integration and continuous…

Post by cheschire » Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 5:02 AM UTC

haram_masala wrote: post #3

I've discussed and recommended this article at length with various associates and colleagues, though I haven't actually read it and have no idea what it's talking about.

Post by kbr2000 » Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 7:22 AM UTC

wrnr wrote: post #12

yarg wrote: post #4

I've seen too many bullshitters in the software industry - people whose technical capabilities extend only as far as their ability to convince non-technical managers that they know what the fuck they're talking about. I've seen these people be promoted to positions where they can do serious damage, no longer a mere developer not knowing what the hell you're meant to be able to do - but a lead developer crippling an e…

I think it's unfair to only blame developers for this bad culture in our industry. At every layer of the stack the same things happen. At my local government they reformed child benefits and needed a new IT system to handle it, of-course we ended up with the over-engineered enterprise architecture of micro-services running on kubernetes, communicating over an event bus with CQRS, continuous integration and continuous…