People often say that they've "done their research" on a topic. For some context, I read about 5 scientific papers a day, maybe 1,500 a year, and I can count on my fingers the number of things I've genuinely done my research on
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See my earlier point. Most decisions requiring research are not at all like “should I get a vaccine” where the consensus is both obvious and trustworthy. Most hard decisions requiring “research” are specifically because expert opinion is obscure (or contradictory or ill founded)
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Consider deciding whether to invest in mutual funds or index funds: the heuristic of "employing experts who have actually done their research" will lead you to trust the active money managers, while "doing your research" will uncover the academic consensus that passive is better
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I mean, you say you're a detective - would you trust some random person online if they said that they'd "done their research" and knew who committed a crime? Or would you perhaps think that they hadn't really done their due diligence
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To be clear, I am not actually a detective :) I was just trying to make an analogy to demonstrate why I don’t find the existence of a literal meaning of a phrase to be so important when the colloquial meaning is quite clear
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