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Does anyone else get imposter syndrome when criticizing people with accredited education? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by King_Simp@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I'm currently writing something criticizing Roderick Stackelberg's introduction to his textbook Hitlers Germany: Origins, Legacy, Interpretations.

I feel pretty confident that my arguments are sound, but like...idk...I'm not a historian? I don't have a history degree [I'm a STEM major], I don't have a background in it, etc. So it just feels...wrong I guess? I mean I get everyone can and should be criticized, but some of the things he says are...well I'll just save the quotes for the full article. It just makes me anxious that either I'm wrong and I just don't know it yet, or I'm right and my perception of education gets a lot worse.

I get like this criticizing people with economics degrees to.

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[–] comrade_nomad@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 week ago

No comment on the textbook your are writing something on as I haven't read it.

As for degrees and imposter syndrome, I feel you on that. Though as a counter point I recently finished a masters degree. Many of my classmates who also successfully graduated didn't really understand many concepts in the program, they were confused in class discussion and did poorly on exams. That said they still have degrees. It also is worth mentioning that many lecturers lacked real world experience so could only state theory which doesn't hold up in reality. One even made a technically incorrect statement regarding how PKI works. So with that in mind, don't let a degree be the only determining factor.

Also 2 of the 3 highest scoring students in the program have completely unrelated undergraduate degrees. So your STEM degree can still hold weight in more social science fields.