I disagree with your disagreement!:catfight:
or rather - joking aside - I was not trying to imply that all boffins have no practical skills. I have known plenty in my life who are immensely practical in all sorts of things which do not have anything at all to do with their academic discipline...
Absolutely this. what is common sense to a Nuclear Scientist is very different to what is common sense to the person who cleans his office. And sometimes the intellectual educated person will be in cloud cuckoo land and totally impractical.