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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8694046" data-attributes="member: 7026617"><p>Why? Because I have a rather in depth knowledge in a couple areas, and have helped researchers in others and, no, they don't always know what they theoretically could about elements of their specialty, because the specialty is too large. So I'm absolutely not accepting the premise that people always know everything relevant in their field, just to make it perfectly clear.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Then, bluntly, I'd suggest your fields are narrow and very specific. I served as both a medical and legal librarian for a number of years and it wasn't a coincidence that I had people who were well thought of in both fields in doing additional research on topics regularly--because their fields were too large for anyone to cover all of them, and I'm not talking about "law" or "medicine" as broad strokes, but things as narrow as "cytology" or "commercial real estate law". That didn't mean there weren't certain common elements anyone in their field wasn't going to know (which is why I made the comment up-thread that a simple die roll without other controls doesn't represent checking to see what someone knows very well) but there were absolutely things that one of them might know and another not, and it had nothing to do with their level of training but simply that it was going to be difficult for any one person to know everything about even those subfields.</p><p></p><p>So, no, I don't buy into "Because you're defined as an expert in X, you're going to always know and/or remember everything about X". If that's your premise, ours are fundamentally at odds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8694046, member: 7026617"] Why? Because I have a rather in depth knowledge in a couple areas, and have helped researchers in others and, no, they don't always know what they theoretically could about elements of their specialty, because the specialty is too large. So I'm absolutely not accepting the premise that people always know everything relevant in their field, just to make it perfectly clear. Then, bluntly, I'd suggest your fields are narrow and very specific. I served as both a medical and legal librarian for a number of years and it wasn't a coincidence that I had people who were well thought of in both fields in doing additional research on topics regularly--because their fields were too large for anyone to cover all of them, and I'm not talking about "law" or "medicine" as broad strokes, but things as narrow as "cytology" or "commercial real estate law". That didn't mean there weren't certain common elements anyone in their field wasn't going to know (which is why I made the comment up-thread that a simple die roll without other controls doesn't represent checking to see what someone knows very well) but there were absolutely things that one of them might know and another not, and it had nothing to do with their level of training but simply that it was going to be difficult for any one person to know everything about even those subfields. So, no, I don't buy into "Because you're defined as an expert in X, you're going to always know and/or remember everything about X". If that's your premise, ours are fundamentally at odds. [/QUOTE]
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