We shouldn’t add up two experts if they would consider each other’s arguments irrational. That’s ignoring their expertise.
I think the last sentence should be, “That’s ignoring a significant portion of their expertise.”
If we’re going to add up expert views, we need to add up what experts consider important about a question and agree on, not individual features of their conclusions.
I consider this to be the key point and feel it could be summarized by saying, “Show your work.” The inherent problem in this is that the reason I defer to experts is because I don’t want to check their work.
This also doesn’t cover the problem that some experts may carry more weight than others.
I think the last sentence should be, “That’s ignoring a significant portion of their expertise.”
I consider this to be the key point and feel it could be summarized by saying, “Show your work.” The inherent problem in this is that the reason I defer to experts is because I don’t want to check their work.
This also doesn’t cover the problem that some experts may carry more weight than others.
One way to solve this is to have a third party track expert agreement to see what conclusions are best supported.
You might do this iteratively to see which experts track the best conclusions.
So yeah, the more I think about this, the more it seems like PageRank.