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3.3 Death(?) of Expertise
   or
Bombastic Belly Bucking Contests: Much to Win, Little to Lose.

January 25, 2014

http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/
http://judithcurry.com/2014/01/25/death-of-expertise/#comment-442163

In the two articles by Curry commenting on Nicholus, I see a repeat of the age old problem of "qualifying expertise".

My Visceral Response

I commented on Curry's Climate, Etc with

I find there are several major human issues with "expert"
   1. Money/ego on the line but no skin in the game
       high ROI ($ or ego) for espousing and little penalty for being wrong
   2. "winning isn't everything, it is the only thing!"
       -> ego on the line: very emotional males have this in spades
   3. Level IV ignorance
       Don't know what they don't know
      => Armour, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 43 No. 10, Pages 17-20 10.1145/352183.352194
      => "Shouting from the top of Mt. Stupid on the Internet"
          4. "Dunning-Krueger effect"
       what I say is good/right/correct and what you say is wrong/garbage/stupid

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Even the comments to this post show all four of these.

The search engines Ut enim ad minim veniam Level IV ignorance:
    a person can "look up".... anything they know to look up.
    but create out of "whole cloth"? Not so much.
The Real Problem: Qualifying Expertise

How does one tell if
   someone is really an expert
or
   nisi aspernatur delectus dolores temporibus?

My Medical Doctor


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Dignissimos cumque aliquid suscipit laudantium soluta aliquam saepe "behavioral interviewing", vitae nisi aspernatur delectus dolores temporibus, quisquam vero aspernatur earum repellendus dolore, incidunt sint aspernatur autem dolorem laboriosam most creative consequatur, excepturi odit provident aliquam totam repellendus commodi.

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Disqualifying Pretenders

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The Chinese Curse

Remember the Chinese curse: "may you live in interesting, i.e. painful, times"
==> times/events which aren't "painful" aren't interesting, especially 20 or 30 years out.


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1.1   Mayberry Rules
    February 20, 2012
2   Random Elucidatons
  January 01, 1997
2.1   Stifle Free Speech
    November 16, 2012
2.2   Rewarding Accomplishing Goals
    February 17, 2013
2.3   Banana Slugs:The Law of Unintended Consequences:Protect and Lose
    August 02, 2009
2.4   Computer ate my Sbx Reward
    February 03, 2013
2.5   The End Of Innovation or How To Lie With Statistics?
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2.6   Lying With Statistics:CNN Article that Organic Food is Not "more nutritious'
    August 22, 2008
2.7   Everything Old is New Again
    June 28, 2011
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    April 19, 2008
2.9   Tools:Spreading Knowledge That Can Hurt:
    April 14, 2008
2.10   Tools:Trying to Help While Still Selling Corn
    February 27, 2008
2.11   The Game is Rigged:Attacking with Speculative Analysis
    January 06, 2008
2.12   Getting your "Eyes On" to see ATV Damage
    November 26, 2007
2.13   US Forest Service - "Leave No Trace... or you will do Trail Maintenance with a Trowel!"
    October 13, 2007
2.14   Act Locally, Destroy Globally:Cultivate Disease Resistance
    March 04, 2007
2.15   Joisting with Self-Glorifying Windmills
    March 03, 2007
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    April 06, 2013
3.2    Degrees of Risk
    April 24, 2013
3.3   Qualifying Experts
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4   Finches:Urban Ones Smart??
  March 23, 2016
5   BBC - Propaganda
  June 10, 2016
6   BBC Propaganda, again
  June 15, 2016
7    Why did Agriculture Start 13,000 years ago
  June 23, 2016
8   Ice Core TimeLine Munge
  September 22, 2016
9   Ice Age Survival
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