In the telco industry I've heard several people say "I think it's easier for someone used to circuit switched to learn packet switched than the other way around". Every single time I heard that was from someone who knew circuit switched, and did not have one single clue about how packet switching worked, but thought they did.
If it's your field it's very easy to see people come in and think they've learned it when they haven't.
I've seen it in mathematicians, too. They very often think they can program when they can't.
Or in other words: You can teach a programmer to be a microbiologist to the point where I will believe they're a microbiologist. But I am not one.
And same with programming, except you'll only convince the microbiologist that you succeeded.
In the telco industry I've heard several people say "I think it's easier for someone used to circuit switched to learn packet switched than the other way around". Every single time I heard that was from someone who knew circuit switched, and did not have one single clue about how packet switching worked, but thought they did.
If it's your field it's very easy to see people come in and think they've learned it when they haven't.
I've seen it in mathematicians, too. They very often think they can program when they can't.
Or in other words: You can teach a programmer to be a microbiologist to the point where I will believe they're a microbiologist. But I am not one.
And same with programming, except you'll only convince the microbiologist that you succeeded.