What I said above. Sorry, to be clear here, by “argument structure” I don’t mean the structure of the individual arguments but rather the overall argument—what rebuts what.
(Edit: Looks like I misread the parent comment and this fails to respond to it; see below.)
To be clear as well, the rhetorical point underneath my question is that I don’t think your heuristic is all that useful, and seems grounded in generalization from too few examples without searching for counterexamples. Rather than just attacking it directly like Gordon, I was trying to go up a meta-level, to just point at the difficulty of ‘buying’ methods of determining expertise, because you need to have expertise in distinguishing the market there.
(In general, when someone identifies a problem and you think you have a solution, it’s useful to consider whether your solution suffers from that problem on a different meta-level; sometimes you gain from sweeping the difficulty there, and sometimes you don’t.)
Oh, I see. I misread your comment then. Yes, I am assuming one already has the ability to discern the structure of an argument and doesn’t need to hire someone else to do that for you...
And how does one distinguish snake oil salesmen and real experts when it comes to identifying argument structure and what it implies?
What I said above. Sorry, to be clear here, by “argument structure” I don’t mean the structure of the individual arguments but rather the overall argument—what rebuts what.
(Edit: Looks like I misread the parent comment and this fails to respond to it; see below.)
To be clear as well, the rhetorical point underneath my question is that I don’t think your heuristic is all that useful, and seems grounded in generalization from too few examples without searching for counterexamples. Rather than just attacking it directly like Gordon, I was trying to go up a meta-level, to just point at the difficulty of ‘buying’ methods of determining expertise, because you need to have expertise in distinguishing the market there.
(In general, when someone identifies a problem and you think you have a solution, it’s useful to consider whether your solution suffers from that problem on a different meta-level; sometimes you gain from sweeping the difficulty there, and sometimes you don’t.)
Oh, I see. I misread your comment then. Yes, I am assuming one already has the ability to discern the structure of an argument and doesn’t need to hire someone else to do that for you...
Probably the skill of discerning skill would be easier to learn than… every single skill you’re trying to discern.