Oh dang, I was told it didn’t matter which instance I joined. 😭

I chose it from some join Lemmy website.

Nothing on that website or on the instance sign up page shows the settings or permissions of the instance. It would be nice to view those before signing up.

Exactly, imagine if we threw away the entire peer review process and made it about, “Well I have a PhD! Checkmate.”

We’d descend into a dark age for science.

Experts often disagree.

If it were that easy, everything would be solved. We wouldn’t need so much research or so many universities.

I agree with Dr. Jey McCreight on the science.

But for determining truth, both sides are wrong here.

Dunning-Kruger is bad, but so is credentialism and appeal to authority.

Many people with PhD’s have had Dunning-Kruger. Someone else mentioned Ben Carson being great at neurosurgery, but not politics.

A PhD doesn’t make you infallible.

I am saying this as someone who is taking graduate-level courses and will be pursuing my PhD. When I’m correct, it’s not because my future PhD causes reality to magically conform to my opinions - it’s because I rigorously looked at the evidence, logic, and formed my own conclusion that better aligns with reality.

Yeah, both sides are wrong here.

Dunning-Kruger is bad, but so is credentialism and appeal to authority.

Aww, thank you! I already posted 2 resource/guides that are widely applicable.

Please reply to them with feedback or create your own posts!

Oh my gosh, thank you so much!

I hope you join! The community is new, but I’m already working on stickied posts of resources. Expect another post in the community within 2 hours.