We should seize opportunities to test expert predictions – as we did, seeing how much bird experts got right about which birds would return to revegetated farmland.
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Articles on Expertise
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How to use language clues to see through someone’s ‘expert’ facade.
As we observe with the war in Ukraine, humanities skills are crucial for understanding 21st-century problems.
Critical thinking means seeking out new information – especially facts that might run contrary to what you believe – and being willing to change your mind. And it’s a teachable skill.
A researcher who studies physical skills explains how getting your conscious thoughts out of the way lets your body do what it knows how to do, better.
It’s what batsmen do on the pitch in between a bowler’s delivery that helps make them an expert in the game. They also need routines.
The coronavirus crisis has given experts and specialists worldwide a lot of power. As countries like New Zealand begin to recover, we need to question that power more than ever.
New research shows that when it comes to our health, we still value expertise above all else.
COVID-19 presents a social as well as a medical crisis, and we will need many different kinds of expertise to survive it
Engineers may be able to develop new ways of opening doors or better and mass-produced face masks for the elderly.
The science of politics became popular across Europe, alongside the rise of capitalism and empire in the 19th century.
Professor Deborah Terry AO speaks of the importance of university expertise, academic freedom, university collaborations with business and international education.
Scientific articles are the way in which scientists communicate their results to their peers.
I read 60 sex advice manuals – here’s what I learnt.
Human beings seem to be born wearing rose-colored glasses. Psychologists are interested in how this bias toward the positive works in the very young – and how it fades over time.
Why experts don’t always win the argument.
Everything we know about the way experts’ brains work tells us that Mayweather is likely to win the fight.
Tom Nichols’ book The Death of Expertise examines why the relationship between experts and citizens in a democracy is collapsing, and what can be done about it.
Experts may be dismissed when they express values, offer advice or make mistakes. But these expectations are unreasonable and unhelpful.
South Africa celebrates Freedom Day this week amid growing discontent over misrule by President Zuma and the ANC. This has led to increased calls for ethical and caring leaders.
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Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Professor of Political Communication, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Professor, Environment & Society, School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of History and Philosophy, and Deputy Dean Research (Faculty of Arts), University of Adelaide
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Adjunct Professor in Ecology, La Trobe University
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Professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Politics, Massey University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Bath
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Vice-Chancellor, Curtin University
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Dana and David Dornsife Professor of Psychology and Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University
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Professor of Linguistics, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Buckingham
