Re: Experiment and Interpretation

Posted by Steve Smith on Jul 05, 2011; 3:46am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Experiment-and-Interpretation-tp6544946p6548188.html

Actually, Steve, despite spending 40 years doing what it was I did, I never felt an expert.  One of my criteria for expertise, which I felt I never met,  was the capacity to explain  a difficult subject to an attentive, well-educated lay person.  And the emperor’s new clothes has always been one of my guiding myths.   

 

So, I confess, these guys bemuse me a bit.  “Frustrate” is way too strong.  There is no place that I can stand to expect experts to answer lay questions about everyday phenonmena.  However, for myself, I find curiosity intensely seductive, and, if I ever ran into somebody who was curious about what I did all those years, I would leap at the chance to explore it with them.   So, I don’t understand why another’s curiosity doesn’t delight them as much as it delights me.  But, of course, that’s stupid.  People are just different. 

 

Actually Nick, I think we *have* tapped your experience off and on here and it has been useful and informative if never (as it should be) conclusive.

I have a friend who's e-mail signature reads:

    "Life is flux, everything else is opinion".  

I think this may sum up the discussion to date on this topic quite nicely!


- Steve

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