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Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field? (lemmy.world)

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The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge.

This isn't a social media thing exclusively of course, I've met it in the real world too.

When I worked as a repair technician, members of the public would ask me for my diagnosis of faults and then debate them with me.

I've dedicated the second half of my life to understanding people and how they work, in this field it's even worse because everyone has opinions on that topic!

And yet my friend who has a physics PhD doesn't endure people explaining why his theories about battery tech are incorrect because of an article they read or an anecdote from someone's past.

So I'm curious, do some fields experience this more than others?

If you have a field of expertise do you find people love to debate you without taking into account the gulf of awareness, skills and knowledge?

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[-] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

As someone actually trained to perform genetic therapy, it was incredible how many people wanted to correct me about my safety concerns regarding the covid shot.

[-] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

A layman looking up the research isn't even that bad. Nah. Religious podcast guy is the best source.

[-] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well surely now by May 2024 your concerns have proven not to be that big of a deal? It’s been years with billions of shots administered. Concern initially is fine IMO but by now you know the shots are fine, right?

[-] ogmios@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There is absolutely still strong reason for concern. Even without looking into any of the documentation regarding negative effects that we've got now, it's simply not possible to claim that we know everything we need to know about it already. Not by a long shot. Simply the ordinary testing regimes that these sorts of products are supposed to undergo are extremely long themselves.

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[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Common workers, mostly yes. Common managers, lol no.

[-] Nemo@midwest.social -5 points 5 months ago

Yes, about everything except tipping.

I've been a lot of things and done a lot of jobs, but I've been waiting tables full-time for over a decade now. And it seems like that's a valid place to come from to talk about manners in public, pink collar work, working-class economics, the training gap, gender roles in the workplace, and addictive personality types.

But for some reason, people just don't wanna hear it when I explain why and how tipping is a better system for all involved than a set wage would be.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I'm not sure earning tips makes you an expert in socioeconomic dynamics of wage labor

[-] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

Nor does reading Marx.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Definitely doesn't. Part of developing expertise is having your ideas challenged by another expert, working with them to flesh out your own thinking, and facing sone gatekeeping on the label "expert".

None of these things happen solely from waiting tables or reading a book!

[-] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

Where does no ethical consumption fit?

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

in my butt

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