{"id":454924,"date":"2010-03-21T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-2352296406746402514"},"modified":"2010-03-21T11:24:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T15:24:59","slug":"ancient-wisdom-their-experts-are-like-your-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/454924","title":{"rendered":"Ancient wisdom: Their experts are like your experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This one is the converse of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikiproverbs.com\/index.php\/No_man_is_a_prophet_in_his_own_country.\">No man is a prophet in his own country<\/a>&#8220;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On average, their experts are a lot like your experts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>No, it&#8217;s not that your experts are right and their experts are wrong. It&#8217;s rather that experts you don&#8217;t know are as vain, clever, mistaken, thoughtful, rushed, insightful, venal and proud as the experts you know.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Just because you&#8217;re reading them in a newspaper, or hearing them on TV, doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re a different species of expert. Be as trusting of them, and as suspicious of them, as you are of the very human experts you know personally.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Try it the next time you read a recommendation about estrogen use, or a political opinion, or a CEO&#8217;s strategic insights, or a blog post. Think of it as coming from an expert you know. Chances are you&#8217;ll give the words respect and consideration, but not the unthinking acceptance of prophecy.<\/div>\n<div><small><\/small><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-2352296406746402514?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is the converse of &#8220;No man is a prophet in his own country&#8220;. On average, their experts are a lot like your experts. No, it&#8217;s not that your experts are right and their experts are wrong. It&#8217;s rather that experts you don&#8217;t know are as vain, clever, mistaken, thoughtful, rushed, insightful, venal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}