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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Michael Lewis on why Americans distrust experts

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

What's the Difference Between an Expert and an Amateur?

Angin: We exaggerate status differences and create inequality at our peril. He says we end up shoving into ever lower status role the person who actually knows the things. Angin: If you've created these barriers between the levels, so that someone who's six levels down will never be heard by someone at the top, you're specially saying, we're never going to surface the expertise that we need deal with the problem. This is paid content from angin.com.

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