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> How can you call an expert someone who can’t consciously decide their own confidence intervals? Well, you don't have to call them that, but most people whom
by JadeNB 7y ago
> How can you call an expert someone who can’t consciously decide their own confidence intervals?
Well, you don't have to call them that, but most people whom others call experts are overconfident in this quantifiable way. See, for example, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-art-thinking-clearly/201306/the-overconfidence-effect https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-art-thinking-cle... . You probably can't do it as well as you think you can either.
- heavenlyblue 7y agoIf you collect enough monkeys with typewriters they will eventually finish writing War and Peace. That doesn’t mean that Tolstoy is overconfident in his abilities. Also you are literally referencing a blog of a science which has serious troubles with the replication or it’s own studies.