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A study on facebook conversations found they were more likely to go awry when one person shares something intended to be an opinion but another person believes it was intended or believed by the speaker to be a fact.
The appeal to expert opinion is often a fallacy. When people with higher academic degrees say their opinions, because they are perceived experts, the intention of opinion might be perceived as intention to share a fact. Facts are useful for persuasion, and when we hear them we might feel someone is attempting to persuade us.
Seems like something people with perceived expertise should be conscious of.
Relating to an earlier thought I had about skepticism and wondering what healthy skepticism looks like, I feel like in general, it should be more acceptable to express skepticism of things experts express. "Experts" operating in good faith could try to encourage this, and make it clear that what they say is often opinions or notions that could use some interrogation. How could we encourage skepticism that leads to a broadened discourse or approach to understanding something?
I began this post by saying "A study on facebook conversations found," without sharing any details about how to find a report from this study. With or without such details, "a study found" probably is or resembles an appeal to expert opinion.
Finding scientific articles and interpreting them seems like an art of its own. I remember some modules in primary and secondary education where we were supposed to learn where to find scientific articles and how to cite them. I didn't understand this to be for preparing me to better understand science. My takeaways had something to do with the tediousness of citation formatting. In other words, I thought the point of such modules was that I needed to understand the difference between MLA and APA formatting and I'm going to get points off if I don't have the indentation proper in my bibliography.
Was that just me?
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March 25, 2021, 1:45 p.m. |
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| Herman Cain |
One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed. |
| Freema Agyeman |
I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic. |
| Malcolm Forbes |
What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much. |
| David Ben-Gurion |
If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert. |
| Allen Iverson |
Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something. |
| Dianne Feinstein |
Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things. |
| Sheena Iyengar |
I could wear makeup today, and one person would say it looks bland, another would say it looks fake, and another might tell me I look really natural. Everyone is convinced their opinion is the truth, and that's what I struggle against. |
| Robert Dallek |
Don't be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you've got to make a judgement because it's not their life that's going to be affected so much as your future. |
| Robert Darnton |
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s. |
| Millicent Fawcett |
Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study. |
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