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This may be the least surprising bit of hubris I've seen lately. When I wrote the blog post on the value of the humanities (https://acoup.blog/2020/07/03/collections-the-practical-case-on-why-we-need-the-humanities/ …) one of the responses I very literally got was from folks arguing that actually physicists were just smarter people...https://twitter.com/yellingatwind/status/1301588828860235777 …
...than other kinds of academics and just went around 'revolutionizing' other fields of non-physics dum-dumbs. In all of which I was reminded of the classic XKCD strip: https://xkcd.com/793/ Not because it occurred to me independently, mind you...
...but because it was offered up by one of the physics supremacists as evidence that physicists really are just smarter and other academics really just dumber. The irony that he had just failed in a basic humanities skill - comprehending complex texts - was, alas, lost on him.
Hat-tip to @notabattlechick's fantastic retweet of the original which absolutely disabled me with laughter when I read it:https://twitter.com/notabattlechick/status/1301955927290130432 …
Afaict from the article the physicists' original model here actually led the state government to (accurately) do lockdowns earlier, which helped things, and only caused problems when the provost overrelied on its specifics due to motivated reasoning.
So the "arrogant phycisicts think they know everything, leading to a disaster" doesn't seem to really match the story as written. And it's not like actual epidemiologists haven't made bigger mistakes here (remember the months the CDC was advising against masks?)
How fitting that the physicists didn't foresee the big parties.
*What* was the problem with the physicist's papers (the actual papers, not twitter editorializing)?
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