{"id":36579,"date":"2018-09-30T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36579"},"modified":"2018-09-10T08:35:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T12:35:38","slug":"qotd-limits-of-expertise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/09\/30\/qotd-limits-of-expertise\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Limits of expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When you wrote your original article &#8230; you might have relied on public sources, but you might also have contacted one or more academics. If those academics did not flag for you that there was a substantial constitutional debate here, you might want to ask yourself if you were treated fairly by them or if they were themselves poorly informed about an area where they mistakenly thought they had expertise. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s an uncomfortable question. It is not intended to be <em>ad hominem<\/em>. But when an academic does not recognize his or her own limits, they are not really useful to themselves or to anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Seth Barrett Tillman, <a href=\"https:\/\/reformclub.blogspot.ca\/2016\/12\/tillmans-response-to-liberal.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Tillman&#8217;s Response to a Liberal Journalist&#8217;s Inquiries&#8221;, <em>The New Reform Club<\/em><\/a>, 2016-12-07.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you wrote your original article &#8230; you might have relied on public sources, but you might also have contacted one or more academics. If those academics did not flag for you that there was a substantial constitutional debate here, you might want to ask yourself if you were treated fairly by them or if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,73],"tags":[764],"class_list":["post-36579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-randomness","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9vZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44849,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36579\/revisions\/44849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}