Britain has had enough of experts; so said Michael Gove during last summer’s Brexit campaign. It was a preposterous thing to say and I suspect Gove knew it. When it comes to matters of life and death, we crave the reassuring wisdom of experts. Even those of us who are frantic Googlers of symptoms deep down just want to be firmly told what the problem is and advised on the best course of action.
The very nature of what frontline professionals in our public services do – diagnosing us, delivering our babies, teaching our children – means they have enormous power over our lives. But what if they are not quite as expert as we would like to believe? After all, they’re only human. Insights from psychology tell us that we rarely make decisions based on rationally weighing up all the evidence – we simply don’t have the time. Instead, our brains rely on short cuts: gut feeling and instinct drive many of our choices, opening the door to the influence of personal values and irrational bias.
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