[lbo-talk] 15% of the Population, 2 Hours per Weekend (was Development of Political Underdevelopment)

[Tayssir John Gabbour]

On 3/27/07, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ph.D's are generally regarded as totally overqualified
> in most avenues of life, treated with suspicion,
> regarded as foolish and impractical people who spent
> years on nonsense no sensible person would care about,
> and resented as smarty pants know-it-alls.

Weird, I hear that exact bias about compsci PHDs in the software dev
world. Vague things from CEOs like, "They've been in college too
long." Not like a big minus or anything, but a... "suspicion" is a
good word.

I get the impression it's too intuitive for many of them to
convincingly articulate.

Tayssir