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Re: Describing which behavior is appropriate or not

Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> Sun, 31 October 2021 15:19 UTC

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Re. "professional behavior"

I've always interpreted that as denoting actually being knowledgeable 
about that which you speak, exercising a measure of judgement & 
restraint, and adhering to a code of professional ethics & decorum.

It's what we expect of our doctors, lawyers, and... ENGINEERS.  It is an 
ENGINEERING Task Force, after all.  And I would hope that most of us 
here are actually engineers, with some reasonable level of engineering 
knowledge, experience, and professionalism.

Miles Fidelman

-- 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why.  ... unknown

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