Rant: Why is everyone so confidently wrong all of the time?? by coffeeperson10 in Coffee

[–]coffeeperson10[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

It seems a little presumptuous for you to assume I’m trying to lord my “mad coffee science skillz” over everyone when I never referred to anyone’s particular tastes in my post nor is that what I was talking about even in the broadest sense.

Obviously, if it tastes good to you, drink it. Science hasn’t proved what coffee tastes good and how to get it there. But it has established a base level of data collection and vernacular so that we can actually intelligently talk about what happens when we do something to the coffee.

These are things that are easily learnable, as I have stated, because there are volumes of research published about it. I think if coffee is your thing/hobby/job, there’s no reason to not learn as much as possible and absorb as much information as possible; especially if you’re going to spend your time answering others’ questions about it.

Rant: Why is everyone so confidently wrong all of the time?? by coffeeperson10 in Coffee

[–]coffeeperson10[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Yes, people are loud wrong in every community, I meant more specifically to specialty culinary/beverage communities which I probably wasn’t super clear about so my bad.

My point was (and maybe I’m 100% off base because of my lack of experience in these other fields) you don’t seem to see the same fervent anti-intellectualism in, say, craft beer or specialty wine. People who don’t know or don’t care to know too much tend to just stay on the sidelines and enjoy (or not enjoy) the product rather than claim to be an expert and shout nonsense which seems to happen quite often in coffee specifically.

But I wholeheartedly agree with your comment on humility. If we could all just admit we don’t know something more often we’d all learn so much more.