[HN Gopher] Inductive Reasoning Aptitude
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       Inductive Reasoning Aptitude
        
       Author : godelmachine
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-08-28 18:40 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | daanlo wrote:
       | ,,Inductive reasoning aptitude is often counter-productive in
       | fields like sales where tolerance is very important, because
       | highly inductive people tend to be good at seeing faults in
       | others." That is huge BS on very many levels. 1) Good sales is
       | all about pattern recognition (e.g. in order to understand why
       | someone wants to buy) 2) I wouldn't know why you need to be
       | particularly tolerant as a sales person 3) In my experience
       | ,,smart people" see less faults in others / are more likely to
       | understand where weaknesses come from. So saying if you are good
       | at inductive reasoning = you are more judgmental is BS.
        
       | npd wrote:
       | "Inductive reasoning is very useful for scientists, auto
       | mechanics, system integrators, lawyers, network engineers,
       | medical doctors, system administrators and members of all fields
       | where substantial diagnostic or data interpretation work is
       | needed."
       | 
       | Working with software requirements has often led to discussions
       | that I could picture happening in a courtroom.
       | 
       | I've also found myself "debugging" contracts and vendor RFPs, so
       | a few of these parallel non-dev fields aren't a surprise.
       | 
       | Seeing car mechanic listed, however, makes me wonder if I should
       | be looking into a new potential way to pay the bills, once white
       | collar tech loses its lustre.
        
         | readingnews wrote:
         | "Seeing car mechanic listed, however, makes me wonder if I
         | should be looking into a new potential way to pay the bills,
         | once white collar tech loses its lustre."
         | 
         | I feel in the future, cars will not have mechanics. Consider
         | the reliability of a large box with a battery and electric
         | motor. By the time something breaks, you trade it in. Perhaps
         | you will just "lease" them until it wears out and pick up
         | another one.
         | 
         | On a related note, a relative was an auto-mechanic. He left the
         | field many years ago citing that automakers no longer want you
         | to fix cars, and the cost of just getting the car info (there
         | is some kind of subscription model there) was killing it.
        
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