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Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge.

This isn't a social media thing exclusively of course, I've met it in the real world too.

When I worked as a repair technician, members of the public would ask me for my diagnosis of faults and then debate them with me.

I've dedicated the second half of my life to understanding people and how they work, in this field it's even worse because everyone has opinions on that topic!

And yet my friend who has a physics PhD doesn't endure people explaining why his theories about battery tech are incorrect because of an article they read or an anecdote from someone's past.

So I'm curious, do some fields experience this more than others?

If you have a field of expertise do you find people love to debate you without taking into account the gulf of awareness, skills and knowledge?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I struggle to make my mum take my advice about subjects of my field of expertise for which I had spent 5 cruel years at Uni. So I am at peace now not being able to make my point across the internet.

[–] Kecessa 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh that's a classic with people you're close to

Complain about issue X that you know how to solve

Hear you tell them how to solve it

Doubt

Don't listen to you but ask someone you know for their opinion which is the same as yours

Never say they're sorry for doubting you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

People in my own office don't listen to me, why would anyone on the street?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I've worked in a bunch of environments and the most common thing I encounter are people stuck in the old way of doing things. Such as using WINS because they firmly believe if nothing bad has happened since they set it up, nothing could happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes people do but it mostly happens when it is a topic that they've tethered to their identity.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Only people I deal with daily at work, everyone else no. I am constantly getting second-guessed, made to make changes, and not listened to by the middlemen between me and the actual users.

Then of course it becomes a disaster that I have to fix.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like your doing development work in a “agile/scrum” team, correct?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I just get ignored at work. Then something gets called out by a customer and it's a fucking issue.

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