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Comment author: buybuydandavis 19 April 2013 03:22:41PM 3 points [-]

. In particular they overestimate the relevence of their expertise to things that are not central to their actual professional or academic practice.

This.

Expertise is not integrated instantaneously across fields, and to the extent one field relies on another, it can be making basic mistakes corrected elsewhere decades ago.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 20 April 2013 06:16:42AM 4 points [-]

"Send in the clergy, they can move diagonally!"

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