Bill Stewart (1923-1997) was one of the most prolific botanists in southwestern Ontario in the second half of the 20th Century. He was co-author of the Guide to the Flora of Elgin County and published dozens of botany articles in his lifetime, including several peer-reviewed articles. He collected t…

I was a titled “Subject Matter Expert” (SME)on a Government project for over 15 years. I also have an advanced degree in Agriculture. My project expertise was neural networking and text search algorithms. Pretty far afield (literally) from milking cows or planting peanuts. Yet I was a pretty de…

I agree with most of the comments here. For me it boils down to: Knowledge with a desire to keep learning Willingness to share that knowledge with learners (hopefully future experts) in an understandable way Ability to accept being wrong and learning from it and, tongue firmly in cheek, if I kn…

can you be both pert and expert? [image] mrgeeze: Lather, rinse, repeat. that’s pert or pert plus

I can neither confirm nor deny that any particular shampoo selection has either a positive or negative impact on expertise. However I find my hair has more body when I use Pantene.’ Thanks,

I find that increasing expertise is often correlated with decreasing hair (i.e., age).

Male logic? (Don’t look at me but) There are iNat experts with grey hair.

I’m a qualified biologist with all sorts of letters including PhD after my name but that simply means that I better understand the areas of the huge field of biology that I am NOT an expert in. What having academic training does mean though is that you generally are more familiar with the scientifi…

I agree with what you say but have reservations about “indigenous or local ways of knowing” because too often that knowledge is limited and not obtained by the scientific process. Take for example the frequent disagreement between fishermen (indigenous or not) who will say there are millions of fis…

[image] inspector_crow: I agree with what you say but have reservations about “indigenous or local ways of knowing” because too often that knowledge is limited and not obtained by the scientific process. In terms of “the scientific process”… yes, “indigenous ways of knowing” are always going …

What does it mean to be an expert?

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astra_the_dragon January 21, 2021, 5:50pm 31

Don’t go mixing up correlation and causation! Obviously the smarter you get, the less hair you will have on your head, as the brain pushes out the follicles from the inside.

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