Critical judgment of work in any given field has little value unless it comes from someone who is an expert in that field. -GRE Issue 77

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Critical judgment of work in any given field has little value unless it comes from someone who is an expert in that field. -GRE Issue 77

The speaker's assertion that work in any field can be judged only by experts in that field amounts to an unfair generalization, in my view. I would concur with the speaker when it comes to judging the work of social scientists, although I would strongly disagree when it comes to work in the pure physical sciences, as explained in the following discussion.

With respect to the social sciences, the social world presents a seamless web of not only anthropogenic but also physical forces, which interact in ways that can be understood only in the context of a variety of disciplines. Thus experts ...

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