a lot of the time, domain experts in the area would acquire knowledge in it the same way I do (by reading meta-analyses and systematic reviews, or textbooks based on those).
Domain experts usually do learn not only from public information. When it comes to the question of whether or not to believe a scientific paper domain experts usually learn the skills from talking with their collegues.
I had one bioinformatics professor who made a point of saying something in every lecture about how we shouldn’t just believe the literature and how there’s a lot of mistaken papers out there.
One of your disagreements with guzey is whether “X is true because a meta-analysis says so” is a reasonable argument.
(I’m also a bit confused about why you are criticizing me for not talking to people in the field if, in your view, those people are mostly untrustworthy and just want to show that sleep deprivation is bad[1]).
Talking to people is a good way to understand how untrustworthy they are.
Domain experts usually do learn not only from public information. When it comes to the question of whether or not to believe a scientific paper domain experts usually learn the skills from talking with their collegues.
I had one bioinformatics professor who made a point of saying something in every lecture about how we shouldn’t just believe the literature and how there’s a lot of mistaken papers out there.
One of your disagreements with guzey is whether “X is true because a meta-analysis says so” is a reasonable argument.
Talking to people is a good way to understand how untrustworthy they are.