>In aesthetic fields, highly trained people often develop tastes that are uncorrelated with the tastes of the masses to signal that they're part of the in-crowd. In the world of architecture, this is known as "the design disconnect." Studies have shown that the tastes of architecture students are diametrically opposed to the tastes of the general public. The same pattern holds in other artistic mediums. ive written about this and it is not limited to architecture or artistic domains, it is one of public vs private taste. public taste allows people who are not experts to judge artifacts within the domain, because the artifacts are legible to non-experts. think fashion, painting, music, whatever artifacts are generally viewable.