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Yeah. A well-functioning civilization would be epistemically like an efficient market. In ours, it's relatively hard to get rewarded to improve the consensus es
by abecedarius 7y ago
Yeah. A well-functioning civilization would be epistemically like an efficient market. In ours, it's relatively hard to get rewarded to improve the consensus estimate about most things: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/scientists-can-collectively-sense-which-psychology-studies-are-weak/568630/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/scientis...
- mistermann 7y agoThat's a very interesting approach in the article, and yet something like that will likely never see the light of day. In my opinion much of the blame for the decrease in public trust of experts lies with the experts themselves for their lack of epistemic honesty and apparent disinterest in self-improvement.