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Many expert level benchmarks totally overestimate the range and diversity of their experts' knowledge. A person with a PhD in physics is probably undergraduate level in many parts of physics that are not related to his/her research area, and sometimes we even see that within expert's domain (Neurologists usually forget about nerves that are not clinically relevant).
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