Monday, 12 June 2017

The Crisis Of Expertise

quote [ In a 2015 story that seemed to encapsulate the death of expertise, an eighth-grader named Rebecca Fried claimed that Jensen was wrong, not least because of research she did on Google. She was respectful, but determined. ‘He has been doing scholarly work for decades before I was born, and the last thing I want to do was show disrespect for him and his work,’ she said later. It all seemed to be just another case of a precocious child telling an experienced teacher – an emeritus professor of history, no less – that he had not done his homework.

But, as it turns out, she was right and he was wrong. Such signs existed, and they weren’t that hard to find. ]

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[by knumbknutz@5:18pmGMT]

Comments

lilmookieesquire said @ 5:46pm GMT on 12th Jun [Score:1 Insightful]
"One of the most common errors that experts make is to assume that, because they are smarter than most people about certain things, they are smarter than everyone about everything."

Ooh lordy. this. so much this. This is Silicon Valley in a nutshell.
foobar said[1] @ 7:55pm GMT on 12th Jun [Score:2]
Part of the problem is that really, we're pretty young as a species, but no so young that there are any new frontiers. Take nearly anything, and anyone reasonably intelligent will be able to find some bit that isn't being done all that well.

That doesn't mean they can usually single handedly revolutionize the whole, because other reasonably intelligent people had already built it.

Of course, sometimes they can, which makes it hard to tell whether someone is a nutjob or a revolutionary.
midden said @ 6:10pm GMT on 12th Jun [Score:1 WTF]
I just want to share this awesome photo I found while doing my own googling.
tank bike
lilmookieesquire said @ 7:31pm GMT on 12th Jun
It's kind of like early Tron!
knumbknutz said @ 8:11pm GMT on 12th Jun [Score:1 Informative]
That's an old school snowmobile - my BIL in Montana has a rustebucket broke down version of that on stashed in his garage.
buckaroo50 said @ 9:25pm GMT on 12th Jun
How does it turn?
midden said @ 11:05pm GMT on 12th Jun
Maybe it's a dragster.
bbqkink said @ 5:52pm GMT on 12th Jun
lilmookieesquire said[1] @ 6:08pm GMT on 12th Jun [Score:0 Good]
Sorry BBQ, it actually is related by the extra links, I'll upmost another comment

Upmodded one of your old posts. Appologies BBQ. I didn't notice the political link at the bottom of the post.
bbqkink said @ 7:53pm GMT on 12th Jun [Score:0 Good]
I told you I don't give a damn about upvotes...Just wish some here would get over the "death by category" it is a judgement call..if it gets any worse I am going to start calling all my post "mafia" as it has no other use.

And while I am on this soapbox where is a category for news?
knumbknutz said @ 8:10pm GMT on 12th Jun
I just upmodded the both of you do you are both back to 0 - play nice now children!



Ankylosaur said @ 8:36pm GMT on 12th Jun
Since you had to bring Trump into it, here's his solution to the crisis of expertise:
knumbknutz said @ 9:09pm GMT on 12th Jun
He looks like he has many long years ahead of him asking mentally stimulating questions such as "what did you say that this was cut with again?", and "So...how much for JUST a blow-job then?"

-_- said @ 10:40pm GMT on 13th Jun
+1 Ironic

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