A Sharp Test of the Portability of Expertise

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Green, Etan A.; Rao, Justin M.; Rothschild, David
• 署名单位: University of Pennsylvania; Microsoft
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2018.3063
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 2820-2831
• 关键词: expertise; probabilistic reasoning; Field study

摘要

To what extent does expertise depend on context? We observe professionals perform a task that is logically isomorphic to-but contextually distinct from-a familiar task in which they are skilled. We find that performance plummets when contextual cues disappear, suggesting that the expertise we observe on the familiar task is more heuristic than conceptual and does not travel far.