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Re: How Hidden Biases Sabotage Your Decisions

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Originally Posted by DampRobot View Post
All the more reason for engineers to have good rhetoric and writing skills. Your opinions, no matter how well founded, are basically useless unless you can successfully convince people. I do agree, though, that in the end of the day it should matter more who has the best engineering rational than the most skill in arguing.
All very true, and all very frustrating.

Try to listen more to the facts and less the presentation to get the real story, but its tough. Great point for those who have to be convinced, and interesting look on brainstorming and such..
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