@ominous said in Dabbling, Mastery, Dunning–Kruger etc:
@jinshei said in Dabbling, Mastery, Dunning–Kruger etc:
As well as that, a lot of recent effort in the UK has gone into devaluing experts and education that provides people with basic critical thinking skills. Liberal arts etc, for example (as @ominous says). Even in my field, the push from the external forces is towards task-based skills rather than critical thinking (which might be a good thing in nurses, yanno?).
We can't have the meat-based assembly line robots thinking for themselves. They might realize they're just a stopgap until the plastic and metal robots are able to take their place.
I mean, I don't disagree on any given point here but I would argue we are cheaper (increasingly so) than robots and thus less valuable.
Then again, my two best friends are professors of anatomy and their students, who are almost all trying to get into nursing, are for the most part complete idiots. If we set the bar for nursing students to "able to think critically," our nursing shortage is going to get a lot fucking worse than it already is real fucking quick.
I'm setting the graduation bar at critical thinking - we don't receive them like that!
I also teach prescribing and there my level is "I am giving this person a licence to kill; do I trust that they won't actually do so from lack of thinking or knowledge?". The ones that don't pass are those that treat the knowledge and critical thinking element of the course as a tickbox they are entitled to pass; They are classic D-K, because they believe they know it all already and are already experts. The ones that do pass demonstrate their understanding of how little we know and how important further knowledge or clinical studies are.
