tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045969480856669822.post7063967050938662457..comments2022-08-13T16:34:50.360-07:00Comments on Zenful Communications: Expertise & Ethics - Where Do We Draw The Line?Theresehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03217693832800328243noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045969480856669822.post-56389173092142519682011-05-16T11:38:28.807-07:002011-05-16T11:38:28.807-07:00Thanks for your feedback, Victoria. I think it'...Thanks for your feedback, Victoria. I think it's dangerous to use the word 'expert' as loosely as most people do. Also, it's easy to throw the word 'expert' at the media to get them to bite. As I pointed out in my post, just because someone says you're an expert it doesn't make it true. It is unethical to post information that is clearly false (without doing further research). I've been called on the carpet as I should have been. People need to be more responsible for the information they post online - the main point behind my post.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing, Victoria!Theresehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03217693832800328243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045969480856669822.post-42682221610658428022011-05-16T10:40:47.720-07:002011-05-16T10:40:47.720-07:00Hey Therese-
You're talking about Kristina Ja...Hey Therese-<br /><br />You're talking about Kristina Jaramillo and her husband, Eric Gruber, no doubt? Yeah this bugs me too. Kristina has taken to the extreme the maxim, "You're more of an expert when someone else says so". I don't want to slam her in this forum, as I know she is committed to what she does, but...people! None of us are really experts. Just because you might study rock formations ad nauseum, and you know more about it than anyone else in your social circle, does not an expert make. <br /><br />According to WIkipedia an expert is "widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill" and has a "faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely" as accorded by "the authority and status of their peers or the public in a specific well-distinguished domain." An expert is also some with "extensive knowledge or ability based on research, experience, or occupation and in a particular area of study." Experts become so by "virtue of credential, training, education, profession, publication or experience, believed to have special knowledge of a subject beyond that of the average person, sufficient that others may officially (and legally) rely upon the individual's opinion." Finally, "Experts have a prolonged or intense experience through practice and education in a particular field. In this respect, a shepherd with 50 years of experience tending flocks would be widely recognized as having complete expertise in the use and training of sheep dogs and the care of sheep. Another example from computer science is that an expert system may be taught by a human and thereafter considered an expert, often outperforming human beings at particular tasks."<br /><br />Sorry, Kristina...you may be dedicated to your craft, but you're not an expert any more than I am or Therese is, even if some yutz from the NYT called you an expert simply because he hasn't completed proper fact checking.Modello Mediahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09784703072079041936noreply@blogger.com