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expertise != good decision making (https://www.rutgers.edu/news/expertise-liability-experts-may-overcompensate-decisions-when-told-they-are-wrong https://www.ru
by anonym29 4y ago
expertise != good decision making (https://www.rutgers.edu/news/expertise-liability-experts-may-overcompensate-decisions-when-told-they-are-wrong https://www.rutgers.edu/news/expertise-liability-experts-may...)
You are about eight times more likely to be killed by a doctor than by an automobile accident, and only about 10% of such deaths are reported (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28186008/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28186008/).
People are, empirically, objectively, and measurably stupid for trusting doctors more than they trust the safety of being in an automobile.
- gusgus01 4y agoI'm not saying expertise == good decision making, I'm saying there's a greater chance of an expert making the correct decision than a layman. That article also only talks about how experts can "double down" on mistakes (and only overprecision) when there is negative feedback, it doesn't comment on the validity of their decisions as compared to layman. Isn't that like the perfect example of comparing apples to oranges? Wouldn't the danger of trusting a doctor require comparing the outcome of trusting a doctor to the outcome of not trusting a doctor?