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Perhaps I have some meta-expertise on judging the correlation between credentials and credibility. Exclusive first-hand observation is a cripplingly restrictiv
by vnorilo 7y ago
Perhaps I have some meta-expertise on judging the correlation between credentials and credibility.
Exclusive first-hand observation is a cripplingly restrictive epistemology. Even much of our own first-hand expertise is based on us learning from and believing sources, professors, textbooks etc.
- threatofrain 7y agoYou have some meta expertise? Have you studied industrial or organizational business and psych literature? You should just come out and say it, as opposed to hinting that you have mysterious credibility.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoExpertise isn't one of those words that metas all that well. Expert tends to sound a lot more, well, expert, than meta-expert. If someone tried to reassure me by saying that they were a meta-expert, I'd probably try and shoo them out of the building with a broom before they damaged anything.
- vnorilo 7y agoThe first paragraph should probably have had a /sarcasm tag. To rephrase with less snark, I don't believe anyone can become an expert without trusting prior experts.