Maybe you’re discussing a proposition that doesn’t match common categories of expertise.
Both local and remote experts routinely have and give strong opinions on things that are only tangentially related to their training. This is especially true about public policy, where technical knowledge and modeling don’t actually give much confidence to the results of any given intervention.
Yes, it seems reasonable to ignore all experts sometimes. At other points, I think it is appropriate to defer to experts (for example, an astrophysicist on how stars work). Then these kinds of considerations come into play
Maybe you’re discussing a proposition that doesn’t match common categories of expertise.
Both local and remote experts routinely have and give strong opinions on things that are only tangentially related to their training. This is especially true about public policy, where technical knowledge and modeling don’t actually give much confidence to the results of any given intervention.
Trust no one, including yourself.
Yes, it seems reasonable to ignore all experts sometimes. At other points, I think it is appropriate to defer to experts (for example, an astrophysicist on how stars work). Then these kinds of considerations come into play