Should you agree with expert A in place P and with expert B in place Q?
I am willing to bite the bullet that, to a first approximation, you should agree with whichever expert you spoke to last. That is, as long as you are attempting to represent each expert to the other. If the experts know of each other’s views and disagree, then you probably should trust whichever seems “higher level”.
But if you’re representing the experts to each other, the same kind of miscommunication questions come into play. If you do have this continual back-and-forth, then you should decrease your confidence that what you understand to be each expert’s position is correct (not just because of misunderstanding, but because you increase your confidence in the experts being wrong).
Perhaps the sort of “trust” called for in the presence of a local expert is rather slight
Yes, you’re right. Your confidence should be quite low, even though I think you should adjust to track their view. I think I might need to update the post with something about this
I am willing to bite the bullet that, to a first approximation, you should agree with whichever expert you spoke to last. That is, as long as you are attempting to represent each expert to the other. If the experts know of each other’s views and disagree, then you probably should trust whichever seems “higher level”.
But if you’re representing the experts to each other, the same kind of miscommunication questions come into play. If you do have this continual back-and-forth, then you should decrease your confidence that what you understand to be each expert’s position is correct (not just because of misunderstanding, but because you increase your confidence in the experts being wrong).
Yes, you’re right. Your confidence should be quite low, even though I think you should adjust to track their view. I think I might need to update the post with something about this