In this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris discuss the six dimensions of expertise, and what constitutes someone being an expert or not. Learn what the 6 dimensions are and whether or not someone should be considered an expert.

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In this week’s In-Ear Insights, there is so much happening in the world so many places and things and events that people look to experts for guidance for help on how to do something, everything from your Google Analytics, stopping working on July 1 to the latest trends in AI, to whatever talking head is on your favorite news channel.

Today, let’s talk about what makes someone an expert.

I asked our preeminent in house experts, the GPT-4 model, what what things the average American considers when evaluating someone’s expertise and machines spit out this list of things.

And so Katie, I want to bounce this off to you and then get your take on whether or not think these things make someone an expert credentials in education.

Okay, experience, published works in media appearances, peer recognition, reputation, and alignment with trusted sources are the six things that the robots think make someone an expert to you? What makes someone an expert?

Well, when I started working, when I started my career, two of those things were the only things that mattered one was education, and credentials, and the other was peer reviewed.

To be clear, I started in academia.

And so if you had, you know, an MD, or a PhD, next year name, and you were published in a peer reviewed, you know, scientific magazine, then you were considered an expert, it didn’t matter.

If you actually were like, in doing the work every day, or if you were just theorizing about it, you were considered an expert if you had an advanced degree.

And this was something that I had to learn the hard way.

Because I was told that in order to move up in my career, I had to have advanced degrees.

So I bit the bullet, I went back to grad school, and very quickly realized that none of the information I was being taught was going to be helpful in my every day.

And so I now have a master’s degree that is completely useless to me.