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>> The funny thing is that a lot of people go around saying "yeah, engineers go around thinking they can just walk into field X and study it without context"

I have a degree in Anthropology and transitioned into UX Research. 90%+ of what you do is observation in both fields. Most of the engineers and math people I've met are horrendously bad at observing behavior.

In some fields, its just a different set of skills engineers are not capable of applying very well.



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