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27.05.2017 | Original Research

Arguments from Expert Opinion and Persistent Bias

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Abstract

Accounts of arguments from expert opinion take it for granted that expert judgments count as (defeasible) evidence for propositions, and so an argument that proceeds from premises about what an expert judges to a conclusion that the expert is probably right is a strong argument. In Mizrahi (Informal Log 33:57–79, 2013), I consider a potential justification for this assumption, namely, that expert judgments are significantly more likely to be true than novice judgments, and find it wanting because of empirical evidence suggesting that expert judgments under uncertainty are not significantly more likely to be true than novice judgments or even chance. In this paper, I consider another potential justification for this assumption, namely, that expert judgments are not influenced by the cognitive biases novice judgments are influenced by, and find it wanting, too, because of empirical evidence suggesting that experts are vulnerable to pretty much the same cognitive biases that novices are vulnerable to. If this is correct, then the basic assumption at the core of accounts of arguments from expert opinion, namely, that expert judgments count as (defeasible) evidence for propositions, remains unjustified.

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Fußnoten
1
See also Walton (2016), pp. 117–144.
 
2
Cf. Jackson (2015), pp. 227–243.
 
3
See also Linker (2014) and Gelfert (2011) who take the “authority” of expert opinion for granted.
 
4
It is important to note that the kind of authority in question here is what Walton (1992, p. 48) calls “cognitive authority,” i.e., the kind of authority that “looks for the auditor to take what is stated as true and believe it” (Goodwin 1998, pp. 268–269), as opposed to what Walton (1992, p. 48) calls “administrative authority,” i.e., the kind of authority that “looks for the auditor to take what is commanded and make it true” (Goodwin 1998, pp. 268–269). See also Mizrahi (2010). This distinction will become important later on in Sect. 3.
 
5
See, e.g., this article in The Guardian on how “Experts get it wrong again by failing to predict Trump victory” (Blanchflower 2016): https://​www.​theguardian.​com/​business/​2016/​nov/​09/​experts-trump-victory-economic-political-forecasters-recession.
 
6
For more on cognitive biases in clinical decision-making, see Groopman (2007).
 
7
Assistant referees are not better at making offside decisions than amateur soccer players are, but the former do take more time to make their decisions than the latter do. The researchers think that this result shows that assistant referees make offside decisions on a cognitive level, as opposed to a merely perceptual level (Put et al 2013). In general, however, studies show that “[i]ntelligence and experience do not make a person immune to cognitive biases” (Cooper and Frain 2017, p. 26). Accordingly, even if the fact that assistant referees take more time to make offside decisions than amateur soccer players do suggests that they think about it more carefully, it doesn’t necessarily follow that they are immune to cognitive illusions, as opposed to perceptual illusions, which is what this study focused on.
 
8
An alternative hypothesis is that it is not expertise per se that makes (medical) experts less susceptible to confirmation bias than novices but rather awareness of the problem of cognitive bias itself. In a feature article in Nature, Nuzzo (2015) quotes Robert MacCoun who says that “When crises like this issue of reproducibility come along, it’s a good opportunity to advance our scientific tools.” For example, “when scientists in the mid-twentieth century realized that experimenters and subjects often unconsciously changed their behaviour to match expectations” […] the double-blind standard was born” (p. 183). If this is correct, then it’s not being an expert in a particular field of study that makes one less susceptible to confirmation bias, but rather it’s knowing about confirmation biases themselves and how they can affect one’s judgments.
 
9
See also Anderson (1983) for a distinction between “declarative knowledge” and “procedural knowledge,” and Ryle (1946) for a distinction between “knowing that” and “knowing how”.
 
10
Cf. Wagemans (2011, p. 337): “E is able to provide further evidence for O”.
 
11
For more on Locke on testimony, see Shieber (2009).
 
12
For more on neural networks outperforming human players in games, see Mnih et al (2013).
 
13
For more on scientific instruments as “enlarging the empire of the senses,” see Shaping and Schaffer (1985), Ch. 2.
 
14
See Kitcher (2001) on how Galileo argued for the reliability of the telescope as an instrument of celestial observation.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Arguments from Expert Opinion and Persistent Bias
verfasst von
Moti Mizrahi
Publikationsdatum
27.05.2017
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Argumentation / Ausgabe 2/2018
Print ISSN: 0920-427X
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-8374
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-017-9434-x

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