Nah it's TOTALLY a hazard of the field - there were multiple occasions during my core where I flat out stuck my hand up and said "I know for a fact I know more about neuroscience and behavioural psychology than anyone else in this room and I know just enough to know that we do NOT know enough to be using these concepts/etc in this context with any meaning or rigour, please stahp."
(Why do I know it for a fact? Ask me about how many times I'd already gone "okay but no actually that's not how human behaviour works let me explain you with citations - " before that point. >.>)
I don't MIND the jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none aspect - I think it's actually appropriate to what a lot of what we do in the field, whether it's in the information sciences or the services side - but what drove me up the wall was the sense of not being aware that no really you are fucking around with the very surface superficial of a field that is HUGE AND VAST (be it stats, psych, behaviour, whatever . . . . ) and you need to be AWARE of that and of what you don't know?
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(Why do I know it for a fact? Ask me about how many times I'd already gone "okay but no actually that's not how human behaviour works let me explain you with citations - " before that point. >.>)
I don't MIND the jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none aspect - I think it's actually appropriate to what a lot of what we do in the field, whether it's in the information sciences or the services side - but what drove me up the wall was the sense of not being aware that no really you are fucking around with the very surface superficial of a field that is HUGE AND VAST (be it stats, psych, behaviour, whatever . . . . ) and you need to be AWARE of that and of what you don't know?
. . . but I digress. >.>