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People usually think the leader is the one who ‘knows more than others people do’. I agree with you in thinking that the leader is the one who knows how much he still has to learn and the one with the biggest ‘hunger’ for learning. I keep on admiring your insight!
I’d argue that facts that are memorized don’t necessary get committed to long term memory. If I’m learning something that seems disconnected and unnecessary for the sake of a test, I may remember (not know) for week and then like water passes through a membrane, it can usher out when new short term knowledge comes in.
Real learning comes when a student is introduced to an idea, it connects to something that came before. It is then synthesized into something we make into our own to commit it to our long term memory. Without connection and meaning, the facts won’t stick.
The problem arises when we think that any one learning mechanism is the only mechanism. I have met some people who learn through exploration and remember through memorization.
Conversely, memorization without understanding what it is your memorizing is laughable and I would claim of little value.
Data Science is real and it’s not just two words put together -> The first known modern reference to the term ‘data science’ to mean as such was a paper by William Cleveland from Bell Labs in 2001: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/departments/sia/doc/datascience.pdf
There is a lot more science going on that you are stating, many years of College and a logical or mathematical background make a great foundation for Data Science but I do agree, this is nothing new. I’ve been at it for 15+ years and don’t see many names from the ASA above. Data Science is more that just analysis and statistics, it is understanding data structures, understand how to clean and glean insight…. I can go on and on but hope you read some more information on Data Science before totally ranting on a field that has been bread and butter for a lot of talented people for decades. Have a terrific week!