The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols | Book Club

Full Title: The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
Suggested by: Extra
Pages to read: 252
ISBN: 9780197763834 (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9780197763858 (Edition Eugene is using)

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While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What is an expert?
•What is the death of expertise?
•How does American culture think of experts?
•How much should each person know?
•How does division of labor effect the amount knowledge of each person in a society?
•How does information availability effect what people know?
•What is the relationship between experts and their communities?
•What do experts think of the public?
•How did the internet affect people’s ability to discuss topics with experts?
•What should be the responsibility of citizens?
•Should experts always be correct?
•What does it mean to be wrong?
•What is the effect of credentials?
•What is the effect of peer review?
•What is the Dunning-Kruger Effect?
•What is metacognition?
•How do conspiracy theories operate?
•What is the difference between stereotyping and generalizing?
•How objective are experts?
•What does a college graduate mean?
•What is the effect of college as a client-centered experience?
•What does it mean to assume that students and teachers are intellectual and social equals?
•What is the effect of fun classes?
•Who wants to stop grade inflation?
•How are colleges becoming anti-intellectual?
•Do emotions override facts?
•How to do research?
•How does the internet affect reading?
•What are the consequences of bad information?
•How do search engines affect what information spreads?
•What is the wisdom of crowds?
•How does Wikipedia operate?
•Which journal articles are published?
•How does media create misinformed citizens?
•What are types of expert failure?
•What are the limits of experts?
•What is the replicability requirement?
•What is the difference between an explanation and a prediction?
•What are parasocial attachments?
•How do experts and leaders interact?
•What should the responsibility of citizens and experts be?
•How did Covid effect experts?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.