autodidactics

[SophiaGrace]

I killed the thread

 

[Peaches]

lol, of course not then I'll kill it some more:

I self-learned a lot of stuff, design, close to professional knowledge in several fields (why I had to do that, it's a very good question without an answer), psychology, alternative medicine, and I am a huge fan of "how to" and life hack websites about small things. If that was the main question of the thread, I did find work thanks to things that I self-taught.

BUT

I think what people recognize as "knowledgeable" is the framing that most people get at school (in good schools, not bad ones) - so I guess that auto didactics work in that sense only when coupled to the (self) development of general framing that teaches you how to think, not just in one specific area but generally.

 

[johnny196775Again]

I like reading about biology and astronomy and geology and physics and meteorology and list goes on and on and on. i love science. But what is even funner is creating music. I have proably over a 1000 books at home and various musical instruments. i hate leaving my home because of those items. I do not have time to consentrait on eveything i want to. And have a nice day.

 

[chris girard]

Yeah I meant people that are also educated in the same areas being able to tell whether you know what you are talking about or not.

Okay, then that makes sense. Sorry and thank you.

I was saying something different, tho. I was saying that people who have credentials will use those credentials against someone who has just as much knowledge but doesn't have the credentials, in cases where there is conflict or disagreement. The first thing you get asked is not whether you know about something but whether you have a piece of paper from a college or a professional regulatory body.

This is absolutely true. If you question a person who claims that string theory is science, for example, then the first response they are trained into taking is to question YOUR CREDENTIALS, rather than YOUR FACTS.... this is actually an informal fallacy of logic. The fallacy is known as an "Ad Hominem"... which means 'to the person.' The idea being that it is far easier to attack an individual than it is to attack their argument... However, if you attack the individual rather than their argument, you are merely insulting the other person, and not countering their argument at all...
This is why I give no attention to people who spout nonsense like string theory...
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the host of the infotainment show 'cosmos', is one such person.... he is a complete fraud, in that I am certain he knows that string theory is not science, but he presents it as such..

 

[SophiaGrace]

I like reading about biology and astronomy and geology and physics and meteorology and list goes on and on and on. i love science. But what is even funner is creating music. I have proably over a 1000 books at home and various musical instruments. i hate leaving my home because of those items. I do not have time to consentrait on eveything i want to. And have a nice day.

What musical instruments do you own?

 

[johnny196775Again]

I like reading about biology and astronomy and geology and physics and meteorology and list goes on and on and on. i love science. But what is even funner is creating music. I have proably over a 1000 books at home and various musical instruments. i hate leaving my home because of those items. I do not have time to consentrait on eveything i want to. And have a nice day.

What musical instruments do you own?

Piano, recorder, violin, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, synthesiser. i need my bass guitar fixed or probaly replaced. Hello.

 

[mickey]

johnny,

I sometimes fantasize about growing up all over again as a different person in a musical family where I learn music from the second I know how to cry for a feeding. I kind of envy you. The instruments I want to learn to play, jazz alto sax and jazz clarinet, are too expensive for me, so I listen to my favorite tunes and airplay nonexistent instruments. You're very lucky to have the real things.

chris,

If you work in the legal field even as support staff for a few years, you get a pretty clear picture of how b.s. credentialism really is. The judge has to accept that a witness is an expert before the witness can give expert testimony, and a lot of that has to do with the witness' credentials. But in practice expert witnesses are sleazy hookers who testify whatever the lawyer paying them wants them to testify. Many times I saw two experts working for opposing lawyers say exactly the opposite things, and it was clear that both were twisting logic into a pretzel.

 

[SophiaGrace]

I like reading about biology and astronomy and geology and physics and meteorology and list goes on and on and on. i love science. But what is even funner is creating music. I have proably over a 1000 books at home and various musical instruments. i hate leaving my home because of those items. I do not have time to consentrait on eveything i want to. And have a nice day.

What musical instruments do you own?

Piano, recorder, violin, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, synthesiser. i need my bass guitar fixed or probaly replaced. Hello.

hi

I have a violin too.