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12 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 August 2012 02:53PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 August 2012 05:52:05PM 4 points [-]

The author made that point in the paper! As fields improve, they move from the right to the left of the table.

Comment author: Decius 17 August 2012 02:36:17AM 1 point [-]

I misunderstood- I thought that is was a way to determine how well experts would perform in a field, based on those characteristics.

One could also read it as a way to determine if experts exist in a field, based on those characteristics.