dgreen
Footballguy
I have a friend who is very successful in his line of work. He's an expert in his field. I enjoy picking his brain about his industry. He has talked about how crazy it is that people who don't have training and experience in his field regularly express their opinions about this field. He's hired to do work, but then they want to tell him how to do the work despite not having the expertise. He makes great points there that I agree with. Yet, he continually comments about things like polls, law enforcement, and even epidemiology; all of which he has no expertise.Almost nobody complaining about polls even knows what a representative sample is or how data gets weighed. They just say things like “well nobody called me and asked” and then fart into their couch.
In my field, people need to trust the experts. In everyone else's field, I'm totally qualified to have a strong opinion.