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Mon 4 Jun, 2012 02:50 pm
Is it the art of oratory that persuades people to be "renowned" or "professional" (such as what a sophist do best), or over ten thousand hours of experience in a given subject/ field or is it an obsession on a subject matter or a field?
OR is everyone an expert to someone who is at a lower rung of ladder than them?
What is the basic requirement for someone to be considered an expert?
@Val Killmore,
Knowledge, skill (or talent) and experience?
@Mame,
All that fundamentally, but subjectively the term also often imply the distinction among its pairs regarding the degree of competence...
@Val Killmore,
Val Killmore wrote:What makes someone an expert?
They know more than the other person.
There's always the classic old line from Will Rogers:
"An expert is someone 50 miles from home with a briefcase."
@Eva,
50 miles...the good old days...
@Fil Albuquerque,
Oh, I don't know. About 10 years ago, I was considered an expert in a town that was only 30 miles away. (It was a very small town.)
Rosborne has it about right. If you know more about a given subject than anyone else in the building, you're the unquestioned expert.
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