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Decius comments on Competence in experts: summary - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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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.