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People without experience don’t think experience is necessary because they’re inexperienced.
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Originally Posted By TXBBQGuy: I've had people here tell me flat out I was ignorant about a subject that just happens to be what I do every single day for a living, with their only experience being "I had it done once and it failed". I tried to explain why it failed, based on their description of the failure, and they told me I didn't have any idea what I was talking about. I just shut up and went on about my day View Quote |
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Yes, it's why I don't claim to be an authority on anything.
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Experience vs education doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive.
With zero experience your education has no context and you will struggle to recognize when it’s appropriate to apply what. That being said, education can make experience go much further than experience with no education. If you have a lot of experience doing something poorly, you’re pretty well entrenched into bad habits and have to unlearn them. Use the context of what this site is about. Shooting. Imagine just giving a total newb an AR, 10000 rounds, and zero instruction (they’re not allowed to look up anything either). How good of a shooter do you think they’ll be after going through all that ammo? Now give someone quality instruction by someone who’s good at teaching and only 1000 rounds. Who do you think will be better at shooting after finishing their ammo allowance? ETA: in this example education and no experience would be a total newb following an expert shooter for 3 days and having everything shown to them, but not being allowed to even touch the gun. At the end of it they get handed a 10 round mag and told to shoot a group. |
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Originally Posted By 3BP: Like LE threads?????? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 3BP: Originally Posted By shotar: That can be said about a lot of people who are very good at what they do, who used to give advice here. Too many people who have never done what they do, were experts on the subject. Like LE threads?????? What about them? |
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Why do these poll results run counter to what you regularly see in GD?
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Every aviation thread since 2001 has been overwhelmed and ruined by comments from fake wannabe history channel/computer flight sim “pilots”.
We also have at least 20-40 active members who make a living aviating, so there is a wealth of information; but a person looking for knowledge would have a hard time separating the wheat from the chaff. |
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GD- "It's kind of like wading through through slimy lake bed with your feet to find clams below the surface".
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Become prompt critical.
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Originally Posted By JustinU235: I guess he means the plague of know-it-alls that argue with SMEs and in some cases, run the SMEs off. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By JustinU235: Originally Posted By AbleArcher: Whatever do you mean? I guess he means the plague of know-it-alls that argue with SMEs and in some cases, run the SMEs off. Oh. That happens here? |
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Experience is invaluable. A good example would be anthropology. An educated person who goes into the field and ingratiate himself with a new culture-has very little experience with how his bias affects his observations and interactions. However once gaining that knowledge it becomes a comparison which strengthens biases. This is probably true for most fields.
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Originally Posted By BillofRights: Every aviation thread since 2001 has been overwhelmed and ruined by comments from fake wannabe history channel/computer flight sim “pilots”. We also have at least 20-40 active members who make a living aviating, so there is a wealth of information; but a person looking for knowledge would have a hard time separating the wheat from the chaff. View Quote Its been awhile since I checked out an aviation thread. I will go find one. |
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Poking internet kooks with pointy sticks since '81
FL, USA
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Experience certainly counts.
BUT, it often only means something when you have the basis (education in the theory) to understand what it means. Otherwise, you get a hell of a lot of, "That's just way we have always done it." Sometimes that is good, sometimes that is bad. |
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It depends.
People learn differently , some folks learn slow or don't learn well unless they have hands on experience. It is also very different depending on the task. I can watch and listen to Jerry Mitchlik all day long and while it might improve my shooting skills somewhat I will need to actually try some of those skills to see how I do. Regardless, I will not be shooting like Jerry! In my pistol classes some folks listen to my description of how to shoot some drill and can visualize what I want them to do (or not do) and then actually do that skill. Other folks listen and say yup,yup yes , and when asked to demonstrate that drill or skill they do everything but the correct skill |
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There was a segment on Fox Business News yesterday that stated many businesses are now valuing experience over degrees and diplomas.
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"...Capitalism...shares its blessings unequally; ...Socialism...shares its miseries equally."
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"Some people talk about doing what others have actually done." -my teenage son
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"Some people talk about doing what others have actually done." -my teenage son
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