Thursday, April 27, 2017

You don't know more than experts

"All I know, is that I know nothing."-Socrates

I'm going to give it to you straight-you don't know as much as you think you do. Unless you are an expert in a certain field, you need to accept that experts know more than you do. The perfect example is medicine. No matter what your yoga/karate teacher says, 99.9% of the time they do not know more than a medical doctor. Medical doctors have these pesky things called "Medical degrees" combined with years of experience in the medical field. When it comes to the their area of expertise, they are highly knowledgable. I admit that even doctors don't know everything-when a cardiologist starts talking about orthopedic issues, they may not be as knowledgable.

Historians are the same way. When a group of historians agrees on something and you don't, odds are-you are the one that is wrong. 

Another troubling issue is people assuming that what they see on Law and Order or reading novels  makes them experts. Law and Order is fiction and just watching it or reading John Grisham does not make you an expert on legal matters. It's the same with reading Dan Brown-you are not a religious scholar because you've read the Da Vinci Code.


3 comments:

  1. I agree. The problem we have is that we live in an age where people want to believe anything and are not willing to do research into finding truth. Example. I saw an article on facebook today talking about something I really wanted to believe. However, after doing some basic research I realized the article was fake news. However, I saw many comments talking about how great it was that the article finally put to rest some issues about life (which of course it hadn't as the article was false) We tend to follow what we want to believe, and unless we do our research, we will be 'tossed to and from on every wind of doctrine'. It's so important that we do our part and not just accept what others tell us.

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  2. "Truth has no fear of the light."-J Rueben Clark

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