Re: Hate Thread
While there will always be plenty of exceptions, that is both true and false. In short, such a simple statement will always be wrong in such deep matters. Not to mention the inherant flaw that it assums a mentor has to be complex to be good and that simplicity is bad (many people would probably argue the opposite).
reminds me of the sociology class i took in uni. The teacher was a massive feminist animal rights hippy so i decided it would be a huge laugh to wear my russian hat (an Ushanka apparently) made out of a rabit. I was right, it was a huge laugh, just not for her.
Then she said that researchers should immerse themselves in their subjects as much as possible. I asked how you avoid bias and she said "You can never be completely unbiased", a statement which completely ignores the point of the scientific method. then you could tell the arts people from the scientists because half the class face palmed and the other half went yeah i can see that.
In short my experience with sociologists is that they are all upset about not being let into a proper scientific discipline (disclaimer: sociology can be done properly, it just hasn't been in my experience). thats why there so much fun to make fun of.