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The telltale sign that you know something...
Nov 28, 2007
Kevin Kelly quotes a Metafilter post describing perfectly, imho, how to discern that you really know a subject:
Read books, google around, check wikipedia. When you start, it will look like most of what is said is reasonable. You are in good shape when you think that 90% of the stuff you read is BS.
Exactly. I do feel like I know user experience pretty well...
Also: Kevin Kelly's blog is one of the very few in my media diet, by the way. Recommended: read it here. (Stuff like Pakistan's decorated vehicles is hard to find elsewhere.)
Yeah I do remember those Decorated Vehicles!
I am from Karachi, Pakistan by myself.
But these days I am in San Francisco, CA
Mudassir Azeemi
My favourite example of this phenomenon comes from commentary on the inimitable works of Immanuel Velikovsky.
(Which, in brief, contend that all ancient myths are grounded in fact, and that all kinds of bizarre astrophysical billiards took place in the distant past of the solar system to start all of those myths.)
There are plenty of supporters of Velikovsky even today, and among them you'll find real, qualified, non-crazy astrophysicists and evolutionary biologists. When, however, the astrophysicists say "the astrophysics doesn't make any sense at all, but the stuff about biology is very intriguing..." and the biologists say "Velikovsky has some real insights into planetary dynamics, though he's completely wrong about evolution, of course...", you've got good reason to avoid spending 50 cents at the used book shop to pick up any of I.V.'s works.