If you’re searching for reasons as to why China has done well and the United States has done poorly at managing the coronavirus, take a look at how many high level communist party members are engineers. Then look at how many high level American politicians are lawyers.
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As an engineer i'd say engineers are definitely less prone to lying but prone to stupidity. In the 19th 20th century e.g. many in the scientific/engineering community supported communism or nazism because they seemed "scientific" to some extent.
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That said i think engineering training can be useful in policymaking but only if the person was subjected heavily to SITG style reality checks for a decade beforehand (maybe this is the case in Chine idk).
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