Why was it that, when I had an operation, my doctor said to me, "Beware, Ms. Hertz, of hyperpyrexia," when he could have just as easily said, "Watch out for a high fever." You see, being ready to take experts on is about also being willing to dig behind their graphs, their equations, their forecasts, their prophecies, and being armed with the questions to do that — questions like: What are the assumptions that underpin this? What is the evidence upon which this is based? What has your investigation focused on? And what has it ignored?
Estar listos para tomar experiencia de los expertos es también estar dispuestos a indagar en sus gráficos en sus ecuaciones, en sus pronósticos, en sus profecías, y estar provistos de las preguntas para lograrlo; preguntas como: ¿Cuáles son las hipótesis que sustentan esto? ¿En qué evidencia se basa? ¿En qué centró su investigación? ¿Qué cosa ha ignorado?