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The Difference Between Experience and Expertise
We can define an expert as someone who has spent a significant amount of time studying a related field, and as such it’s reasonable to assume that experts are slightly better at avoiding the problems of information cascades, binary voting, and free market default values... This is because the time afforded to experts to think allows them the space ... See more
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
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Whether or not experience inevitably led to expertise, they agreed, depended entirely on the domain in question. Narrow experience made for better chess and poker players and firefighters, but not for better predictors of financial or political trends, or of how employees or patients would perform.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Whether or not experience inevitably led to expertise, they agreed, depended entirely on the domain in question. Narrow experience made for better chess and poker players and firefighters, but not for better predictors of financial or political trends, or of how employees or patients would perform.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Their so-called experience has blinded them. They have fallen prey to a mental set, called an Einstellung effect. The success experiences create an attitude of confidently following a routine, which means that people have fallen into a habit of using an approach that works and fail to scan to see if there might be a better method. These findings ar
... See moreGary Klein • Seeing What Others Don't: The remarkable ways we gain INSIGHTS
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The idea that 'expertise is just pattern-matching is challenging to me because it doesn't seem like it should be so simple. What about creativity? Don't different mechanisms than prototype-based recognition drive creativity? The short answer seems to be 'yes, creativity relies on connecting different ideas, which is independent of expertise. The an... See more
Commoncog • Expertise is ‘Just’ Pattern Matching
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Rather than discrete categories, the expertise, experience, and efficiency labels are obviously meant to describe only points along a spectrum of practice
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Rather than discrete categories, the expertise, experience, and efficiency labels are obviously meant to describe only points along a spectrum of practice