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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2902113, member: 76194&quot;]I know people pride themselves on being anti-intellectual in this country, and love to pretend their uninformed opinions on a topic are as valid as that of the expert, scientist, or researcher with a degree and many years of experience in the subject area...but maybe if you stopped putting down anyone with an education and actually listened, you could learn something.</p><p><br /></p><p>While a degree doesn&#039;t necessarily guarantee the person giving the advise knows anything about the subject he is speaking on (ie. an Art History major talking about Economics or Quantum Mechanics), chances are someone who studies a subject for 4 to 8 years knows more about that subject than you ever will.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m a lawyer, and I&#039;d say 20% of my clients are regular people who thought what they read online in some shady website or heard from a friend made them an expert in law and therefore they don&#039;t need the assistance of someone who does it for a living, then they come to me after they botch things badly and are desperate and in a state of panic because the court is about to throw their case out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Likewise, I know enough not to pretend my degree gives me any insight into economics, or science, or engineering, so when I need to know about those subjects (or another subject I didn&#039;t study), I seek opinions from qualified individuals, listen to those experts, and keep my misguided opinions to myself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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