Staying Sane in an Era of Information Overload: How Heuristics Can Be Used to Fight the Expert Problem
ASR (Asian Social Research) was first launched in 2014 by Chiang Mai University. However, it has a longer history, with its genesis in 2002 as part of Chiang Mai University Journal.This journal was split into two in 2007, with the formation of ASR's predecessor, the Chiang Mai University Journa...
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th-cmuir.6653943832-686482020-05-20T04:41:50Z Staying Sane in an Era of Information Overload: How Heuristics Can Be Used to Fight the Expert Problem Julian Pigott The expert problem Heuristics Sociopolitical discourse Nicholas Nassim Taleb Paul Krugman ASR (Asian Social Research) was first launched in 2014 by Chiang Mai University. However, it has a longer history, with its genesis in 2002 as part of Chiang Mai University Journal.This journal was split into two in 2007, with the formation of ASR's predecessor, the Chiang Mai University Journal of social Sciences and Humanities, which was later restyled as ASR in 2014, and began publishing online in 2015. Experts issue forecasts and advice to the public on matters such as education, child-rearing, personal finance, mental health, politics and economics. Since the layman lacks the idiosyncratic knowledge needed to assess the theories, methodologies or analyses upon which this expertise is based, he risks becoming overly reliant on the expert in making sense of the world. In a draft paper circulated in early 2018, the writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb proposed ten principles for politics under complexity, four of which are examined here as means of protecting the layman against the ‘tyranny’ of the expert. The analysis shows how dominant discourses on immigration policy and social media regulation in the Western media violate these heuristics, and therefore are exposed as ideological activism masquerading as expertise. 2020-05-20T04:41:50Z 2020-05-20T04:41:50Z 2018 ASR: Chiang Mai University.Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 5,2 (July-Dec 2018), p.152-172 2465-4329 http://cmuj.cmu.ac.th/uploads/asr_journal_list_index/735675774.pdf http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/68648 Eng Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Chiang Mai University |
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