wewbull
“Won’t somebody think of the consumers?!?!”
There’s a problem in engineering education from anywhere in my opinion. The main issue is teaching knowledge, not understanding. This is then backed up with technology being so impenetrable these days that it’s next to impossible to self teach by ripping stuff apart to see how it works.
This combination is producing people at the end of their education having very little idea how to work on anything.
I think a lot of what people are missing is around spoken techniques.
- Recognising ad hominem attacks.
- Recognising straw-man arguments.
- Recognising circular reasoning.
- Spotting embedded assumptions or premises in points.
- Being numerically literate enough so that big numbers have context.
Yes, these things apply to texts also, but they can fly past you when somebody is speaking. You can’t take 30 seconds to notice that somebody is arguing against something which wasn’t said by the opposition. It has to be a reflexive “hang on a minute! That’s BS”.
The fact that Priti Patel is a Dame is abhorrent.
I finding it difficult to tell. It’s certainly more wide spread, but 2011 was 3-4 days (I think) of continual riots in the same area. This feels more like there’s a tour of the country going on.