@davidjamesweir@mementomori.socialInspired by recent posts (in Finnish) by @kaarne, I’ve been trying to remember the name to the cultural phenomenon where professionals (physicists, but also engineers and others) hubristically assume they can apply their skills to other fields.
@dchooper91 dug up this relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/793 (thanks!)
And I discovered the saying “ne supra crepidiam” (cobbler, keep to your last/suutari pysyköön lestissään): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cobbler,_keep_to_your_last
- from whence the word ‘ultracrepidarian’.
But I encountered a more general name for this phenomenon at some point, and it had a nicely written Wikipedia article. Does have any idea what it might be?
I’d love to remember it because this phenomenon drives me up the walls and having a name for it might help. 
no se yks Viitanen @davidjamesweir @dchooper91 To be fair, I probably should’ve added a ”not all physicists” footnote (…just the most insufferable ones and general twats?). I _want_ to like all physicists – some of the more famous ones are just making it a bit hard.
And let’s not even mention engineers as Finland is infested by a particular type of those and it’ll only lead to one turning up and I’m not up to being mansplained to right now.*
* right now meaning ’ever again’
@radulfr Thanks, I hadn't quite realised before how similar it is to what I had in mind, but it wasn't that! I should carefully check the links on that page though to see if it takes me to what I am thinking of.
@davidjamesweir @kaarne @dchooper91 seems like overconfidence bias?