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RE: The value of being Intellectually Modest in public policy: taking account of our ignorance
If someone tells you, he knows more than you about a specific thing because he had many years of experience - than you can answer him with a saying of Kurt Tucholsky: "Experience is nothing. You can do a thing wrong for 20 years."
This just came to my mind while reading your post again at breakfast.
Haha, excellent quote! :D
I appreciate your point ... but ... If that is your standard reply, isn't that automatically assuming he "Has been" doing it wrong for 20 years and depriving yourself of that "Possible" knowledge gained from 20 years of experience? Cute quote, but please don't auto discriminate (And restrict your own "Intelligence gathering") based on an age difference.
"Yeah, well, that's just, like, MY opinion, man"
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