Being human, I think it is.
This occurred to me when I thought to tell you about the 100th anniversary this year of The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer. The Iron Ring, given during the Ritual, is there in plain view on the little finger of our working hand reminding us to tell it like it is. It really does do that. But sometimes we don’t notice.
I remembered a survey I did in 2020 of seven engineers in the Maritimes about the presence of bias in experts. (Refs 1 and 2) I can’t help but think those seven engineers would have been referring to other engineers. My respondents said bias was there, and I was quick to…
