In my book, outside of hard sciences and engineering, "being an expert on X" is just a BS title, almost unrelated with competency, actual experience, and a history of good outcomes working on X, and worst of all without skin in the game.
The biggest blunders and worst outcomes, have historically come from "expert solutions"...
On the other hand, tons of creative solutions and amazing inventions came from non-experts -- people like Mendel, for example (and in fact any new domain must by necessity be founded by a non-expert, since there's no domain to be an expert of beforehand).
The biggest blunders and worst outcomes, have historically come from "expert solutions"...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-experts-are-al...
On the other hand, tons of creative solutions and amazing inventions came from non-experts -- people like Mendel, for example (and in fact any new domain must by necessity be founded by a non-expert, since there's no domain to be an expert of beforehand).