JoshuaZ comments on Open thread, Nov. 02 - Nov. 08, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 06 November 2015 07:31:40PM 2 points [-]

Research on expert judgement indicates experts are just as bad as nonexperts in some counterintuitive ways, like predicting the outcome of a thing,

Do you have a citation for this? My understanding was that in many fields experts perform better than nonexperts. The main thing that experts share in common with non-experts is overconfidence about their predictions.

Comment author: Clarity 06 November 2015 11:34:57PM 0 points [-]

Yep, follow the summary here to the Expert Judgement textbook if you like. I was skeptical too before I followed up this claim and actually read the textbook.