Hi,
Suppose you went around asking people two questions:
1. Could you become a good psychologist?
2. Could you become a good network engineer?
Results from my informal experiment have been that people seem more
likely to think that they could become a good psychologist than a good
network engineer. Given that the word "good" is vague, why do people
think that it is easier to become a good psychologist than a good
network engineer when the human brain is much more complicated than a
network? Could these ideas perhaps lead to technical people undervaluing hci /
user interface people because at some level the technical people
feel anyone can do hci / user interface work with not much training?
What do people think?
Scott