@Aelkus had a good meta take on this phenomenon thay I can’t find now
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I do think though that studying something for a lifetime isn’t the same as expertise. People’s instincts on what domains allow for experience to equal expertise aren’t bad. I do think a lifetime studying explosives chemistry buys you more exclusive expertise claims than politics
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It’s a question of what domains do vs do not allow common experiences to teach you much. People do accrue a lot of relevant experience about politics in daily life. The closest we come to explosives experience is setting off fireworks. So we give ourselves more points on former.
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In general my default sympathies lie with lay people weighing in. There is a healthy disregard to bureaucratic boundaries, and reasonable impulse to apply analogies or adjacent life experiences.
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