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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
Did you read the rest of what I wrote above?
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Yes, I did. And quite carefully, I might add.
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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
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).
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I agree to an extent, but I still maintain that the massive increase in specialisation produces a more global sensation of knowing more than one in actual fact does. Again, I don't have any evidence for this, but it is my suspicion that specialisation contributes significantly to this phenomenon.
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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
You also did imply that there was an overall knowledge reduction (at least that is how I interperated your point on the reduction generalism).
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I didn't mean to imply that. My point was that relative to the existing collection of universal knowledge, people's grasp of practically everything is much shallower than it was prior to the knowledge explosion. It is not that we know less—it is rather that we know a much smaller fraction of the whole because the whole continues to expand so dramatically.