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Professors can be wrong or misunderstand things. They are human too. Is there any evidence besides an appeal to authority?
by netizen-936824 5y ago
Professors can be wrong or misunderstand things. They are human too.
Is there any evidence besides an appeal to authority?
- themitigating 5y agoAn expert in the field is more likely to be right compared to someone who isn't an expert. Their opinion should carry greater weight
- cpncrunch 5y agoVince kind of lost his credibility when he allowed David Tuller to post on his blog.
- austinjp 5y agoIf a thousand people point to expert A, and a single person points to expert B, does that tell us anything useful about expert A or B?
- z3t4 5y agoexpert A has thousands of twitter followers, while expert B does not use social media.
- Bobylonian 5y agoThe modern issue is that most of experts are with very narrow expertise, which is not carrying that great weight as you might think and such expertise also doesn't mean that much in responsibilities. My mother at 14 after a car accident was considered as lost cause and by opinion of expert she should be dead, but survived only because her relative with much less medical expertise believed in second opinion and got her in different hospital. Sometimes, these stupid parroted ideas about expert opinions can only be proven wrong by personal experience only. But quite many people do not learn from their own mistakes, so, meh - there is no cure for stupid people, who can't think by themselves. PS Every covid mutation so far has put scientists on alert...
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoOnly if they have a good record of predictive accuracy. Is that the case here?
- native_samples 5y agoAre you claiming a professor of virology shouldn't be classed as an expert in viruses?
- kcplate 5y agoThey are only allowed to be an an expert in 2021 if a majority of anonymous Twitter followers agree with their assessment, and if their stated political opinions for their entire lives lean in the correct direction. Please note those two conditions correlate.
- skinnymuch 5y agoNot saying this is you. Normally your comment is a trope by the right to paradoxically imply how they are such victims in 2021, but the other side are snowflakes and want to cancel every one. There’s an overlap with hard left and a few other niche political views as well. Though with less victimhood and more consistency at times. Personally, I care very little for appeal to authority myself. The bias among experts based on their political views is generally going to be very high.