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If the internet has taught me anything it's that no one is an expert in anything (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Experts often qualify their answers and a certain segment of the population sees this as weak. It makes sense if you consider the strength of your faith being an asset you would view any nuance as weakness.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

This is the issue. Experts effectively speak in another language than the rest of us, and the dummies/(honestly mostly) intentionally disengenuous among us use that to disqualify experts.

Experts know there's a margin of error. Dummies are easily convinced by the intentionally disengenuous that the margin of error accounted for means it's all bullshit.