Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

That’s all fine, but the thing that generalist policy writers like me have expertise in is *discerning what the expert consensus actually is or whether or not one exists.* On twitter, pro-expertise people often have misperceptions about this. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 15, 2021 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Something that happens on Twitter is that a lot of people here both have expertise and credentials in a specific field, and also a generalized sense that expertise and credentials are important and they try to uphold pro-expertise values. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 15, 2021 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This can lead to people who are dispositionally pro-expertise engaging in table-pounding in favor of a consensus that isn’t actually real — oftentimes there’s just disagreement about things but one particular view is visible online by happenstance. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 15, 2021 Hibernated