katydee comments on Best career models for doing research? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: katydee 10 December 2010 06:27:56PM 9 points [-]

I am willing to accept the idea that (intelligent) specialists in a field may know more about their field than nonspecialists and are therefore more qualified to evaluate matters related to their field than I.

Comment author: Vaniver 10 December 2010 06:37:09PM 5 points [-]

Good point, though I would point out that you need E, A, and R to be specialists when it comes to how people react to X, not just X, and I would say there's evidence that's not true.

Comment author: katydee 10 December 2010 06:44:08PM *  1 point [-]

I agree, but I know what conclusion I would draw from the belief in question if I actually believed it, so the issue of their knowledge of how people react is largely immaterial to me in particular. I was mostly posting to provide a data point in favor of keeping the material off LW, not to attempt to dissolve the issue completely or anything.