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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This is not really what I was getting at. I agree, we absolutely and collectively know more now than at any point in history. My point was more along the lines that because of the knowledge explosion people are necessarily directed into increasing specialisation. My hypothesis is that people generally think that they know more than they actually do about almost any given topic, and this in large part a consequence of the depth of knowledge we tend to possess in a narrow topic.
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Did you read the rest of what I wrote above?
I'm saying that people spouting off opinions about things they really don't have the depth of knowledge probably isn't relevant in reference to having expertise in a single topic. Dumb people always have opinions about things and think they are smarter than they are (insert Dunning-Kruger reference here).
You also did imply that there was an overall knowledge reduction (at least that is how I interperated your point on the reduction generalism).