The Limits of ExpertiseCreated: 2021-12-09Ordinary people, sufficiently motivated, are capable of finding insights that match or exceed career experts. It’s no secret that experts are often wrong. Anyone can make a bad call now and then, but at least in theory an “expert” should make far fewer mistakes than the rest of us. But that’s true less often than we might expect. Social scientists surveyed before and after the Covid-19 pandemic performed no better than non-experts when asked to make p...