http://www.gnxp.com/new/2005/07/24/expertise-knowledge/ Genetics Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 http://www.gnxp.com/new/2005/07/24/expertise-knowledge/#comment-10603 Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:46:41 +0000 #comment-10603 If you think its bad in the physical/hard sciences 
 
i figured if its bad in those sciences, must be worse elsewhere.

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2005/07/24/expertise-knowledge/#comment-10604 Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:00:33 +0000 #comment-10604 These modifiers … outside their ghetto 
 
If you think its bad in the physical/hard sciences, come over to the social sciences (much less Education) where (almost) every person with letters behind his/her name feels endowed to wax elloquently about stuff they have no busisness discussing (much less as an authority), just because he/she read an article or book at one point in his/her academic career. The best phrase I learned a long time ago is: “that is not my area of expertise,” which goes hand-in-hand with my all time favorite Arthur Jensen quote:
 
I’m always amazed to see a psychologist offering a glib explanation of some immensely complex behavioral incident when psychological science has not even provided explanations for comparatively simple general phenomena…

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