notes-groupDecisionMaking-expertPollSiteIdea

idea: a website which would poll experts in various fields for their opinion on various controversial questions. We would learn which questions are controversial in the world at large even though a rough consensus has been reached amongst those who are experts on the topic.


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interesting list of expertise:

JohnStrange? 1 hour ago

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Whenever I see 'expert status' debated at universities, where it is debated and criticized a lot, my alarm sirens go up. You can split hairs about what really constitutes an expert for many hours, I've even been to conferences about this topic. But funny Niels Bohr paraphrases aside, it's in reality very simple and not problematic at all who constitutes as an expert:

These criteria really suffice to weed out all the pseudo-experts of the world. That's because most if not all pseudo-experts are either laymen or crackpots from related disciplines, and in any case are not recognized as eminent scholars from people of their field. Someone can be an expert without satisfying these criteria, Richard Feynman on the Challenger catastrophe, for instance, but if you want to make sure, the above criteria suffice.

Last but not least, nobody is forced to believe genuine experts, but he should also be prepared to defend his points of view as well as a genuine expert or be regarded a stupid assclown if he doesn't.

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not quite there yet, but AgreeList?.com could get there someday.

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http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel seems to do this for economics