Political & Business Experts?!?

Have you ever stopped and thought about what it means to be called an ‘expert’? Let’s break this thing down a bit.

What exactly is an expert?

Can a person claim themselves an expert?

Can someone else claim a person an expert?

Does the claiming of one’s self as an ‘expert’ …………or the claiming by someone else actually make the person an ‘expert’?

I have enjoyed reading Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell.  It has been in this book that I was reminded that even so called ‘experts’ in a given field usually know only 10% or less of the knowledge to be known on their subject of expertise. What is even more frightening is the fact that an ‘expert’ in one field………. can only ‘know’ 1% or less of the knowledge to be ‘known’, in general, about most other subjects.

When I think about this and I watch our government make so many decisions about so many different subjects……………and then I think about the best case scenario is that they operate individually on 10% or less of the known knowledge even in their given fields……………and the worst case scenario  is that they operate on 1% or less of the known knowledge about a subject…………WOW

We have folks who somehow think they can ‘outsmart history’………..and be an expert in every possible field and on all subjects……….I am understanding more and more why the power was given to the people when this Country was founded and not to an elite few who supposedly had a ‘corner on the market’ regarding knowledge……….

The more I read and learn the more I realize just how little I know!

kml

2010