[ShrimpHawk]

> who have little to no government experience

Decoding ancient scrolls has no relevance to government procedures.

[vitajex]

What he did to win the scroll competition had to do with data analysis, not ancient history, so of course it could be relevant. But none of us, including the author of the article, knows what they're specifically doing, so it's not possible to say how relevant it is. It's a pity the reporter didn't do some reporting about that, instead of writing a hit piece calling them lackeys.

[alfalfasprout]

That's a completely different type of "analysis" and on a completely different scale. The skillsets are not even remotely comparable.

[brigandish]

That seems entirely relevant - getting to the bottom of a cryptic and poorly documented puzzle without any help from the contemporaries (in the case of the scrolls, because the are dead, in the case of government employees, because it’s not in their interests).

I write that only half in jest. Maybe less than half.