We Are in Need of Renaissance People

[Axtremus]

The article lacks analytical rigor. The author should support his claims with statistically significant data rather than mere arguments based on a few exemplars.

[Jolly]

Okay.

[Mik]

He's spot on. One need only be in IT to see how siloing has impaired talented, efficient software development.

[jon-nyc]

He needs to spend more time on TNCR.

[Mik]

You have a point, Jon. Pretty multifaceted bunch.

[taiwan_girl]

Didn't we have an article recently discussed about how US colleges were getting very "One Dimensional"? I agree that people should not be so focused on one skill to the exclusion of other ones.

[xenon]

This book argues something similar. Lots of examples of successful polymaths (and argues that successful people tend to be multi-faceted).

[Horace]

You can't spell "triumph" without "hi, Trump".

[Jolly]

@Axtremus said in We Are in Need of Renaissance People:

The article lacks analytical rigor. The author should support his claims with statistically significant data rather than mere arguments based on a few exemplars.

Does the book have analytical rigor?

[Copper]

Renaissance People can be so stuck up.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in We Are in Need of Renaissance People:

He needs to spend more time on TNCR.

I think you may be confusing Renaissance People with Renaissance Fair people.

[jon-nyc]

We have those too. One of them at least.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Doctor-Phibes said in We Are in Need of Renaissance People:

@jon-nyc said in We Are in Need of Renaissance People:

He needs to spend more time on TNCR.

I think you may be confusing Renaissance People with Renaissance Fair people.

Pretty sure I know the woman on the scooter. If it's who I think it is, she's no rando.

[89th]

Aunt May?

[Klaus]

@Axtremus said in We Are in Need of Renaissance People:

The article lacks analytical rigor. The author should support his claims with statistically significant data rather than mere arguments based on a few exemplars.

That's not an issue where statistics is applicable. Sometimes an analytical argument is the best you can get.