Surgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons
This is the sort of sophmoric &#x27;conventional wisdom 2.0&#x27; that&#x27;s no more effective than the conventional wisdom it aims to replace. The thesis is basically, &quot;most people think &#x2F; act &#x2F; look like X, therefore the opposite is more valuable.&quot;<p>That guy who looks and sounds like a doctor may have paid his own way through college. Maybe he went to speech therapy to overcome a stutter. Maybe he works out regularly and follows a good diet because he truly believes in the advantages of a healthy lifestyle and he knows how hard it is for his patients to do the same.<p>The point is, the vast majority of the time we don&#x27;t have any way of judging how much a person has had to overcome just by looking at their appearance. It&#x27;s not that we&#x27;re drawing the wrong conclusion from the metric, it&#x27;s the metric itself that&#x27;s broken.