--- "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
[Larry Sanger] sees [our anti-elitism] as causing our 2 biggest problems:
- a perception of unreliability (justified or not)
- an often unpleasant an even hostile working atmosphere
We value getting the content right over blindly trusting somebody's credentials. So yes, things do get unpleasant for people who expect the use of their credentials and similar appeals to authority will easily win them arguments over content. I've had enough PhD professors who espoused, as fact, fairly fringe ideas that I no longer just assume any one of them is right without checking.
So remember this refrain when confronted with credentialism again: "It's about the content, not who wrote it, stupid!"
If that is anti-elitist, then so be it.
-- mav
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