Dec 8, 2005

I'm not an expert, just a blogger !

Just because I blog about a lot of stuff relating to HR, Recruitment, Management, Innovation it does NOT make me an expert.

And now I am thankful for that fact.

So like Tom says, I hope I also remain "half-naive" about a whole lot of stuff....the important thing is to have conversations about ideas, and have wonderful people like you out there force me to re-look and examine my assumptions and biases.

Thankfully I am not an expert !

P.S. Here is the link to the New Yorker article and the best quote:

The experts’ trouble in Tetlock’s study is exactly the trouble that all human beings have: we fall in love with our hunches, and we really, really hate to be wrong.

3 comments:

  1. let me put a twist to this:

    if we presume that prof tetlock [Tetlock is a psychologist—he teaches at Berkeley—and his conclusions are based on a long-term study that he began twenty years ago] can be called an expert in the field of psychology, how do we interpret his (expert) analysis about experts?

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  2. I blog therefore I am...what? An expert? No. A seeker of wisdom? Yes.

    Terry

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    tyrone

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