Maybe you should go over to the IEEE and find out what the membership actually is!!! It's composed of young students, undergraduates, graduate, post grads & professors alike, everyone is welcome, no degrees required!! However, they do demand a high level of credibility in papers that get published.
Thanks!. I didn't know that. It shows bias and false assumptions on my part, sorry.
But that is reassuring, that published papers, need high levels of credibility.
My opinion is that the real expert, is testing an actual test circuit, which shows how circuits really behave, rather than what the experts, necessarily believe.
I.e. Theory and Practice, are very important elements in Electronics and can disagree, sometimes in surprising ways.
My experience indicates that the best teachers are the most knowledgable in the subject matter! When a newbie is asking for help, they are often asking to learn as well, and what better way to enrich this learning experience than expert guidance.
That is very, true. But on the other hand, all sorts of resources, are in limited supply. So, the best (most knowledgeable and experienced) electronics teachers, probably don't have the time and energy, to deal with every single electronics student/hobbyist or fellow electronics expert, in a different field.
But when they have got the time and energy, and do post replies on this forum, e.g. in the beginners section. The fact that they are NOT formerly identified as being good/best/expert/great-teacher etc. Is of reasonable concern. Even if the proposed solution, seems to have various drawbacks, as mentioned by myself and others in this thread.
I do get concerned myself. When I see obviously wrong, misleading or even possible safety risks, with some of the posts on this forum. But posting a counter-reply, is not always or often done, for various reasons. Some posters are known to be argumentative if you disagree with them, maybe I'm mistaken or wrong myself. Maybe it is just laziness, as more often than not, someone else will pop into the thread and correct the mistake(s).
Dunning-Kruger mountain effect??
That gets tricky. Because, when I was learning more about that, a while back. It seems to turn out that it is a very often misunderstood concept. Basically, the very vast bulk of the time, the term is incorrectly applied.
If I understand the term (correctly). It really is a term that applies to
everyone, novice and professional/expert alike. To varying degrees.
And why would we decide on THE one expert, now that would be a brilliant decision!!
Anyway, it seems most folks are not in favor of a group of "experts" in various fields, mainly to help newbies with question/answers and some fundamental learnings.
The more I think about and discuss this. The more I feel empathy for beginners. As I said in a previous post in this thread. It is extremely difficult for me to put myself into the shoes of a complete beginner of electronics (again, a long time ago in the past, since I was a beginner). So, I could easily be completely missing the difficulties such people have, in reading the situation.
Most of the people who are voting here in this thread, are both already well beyond beginner level, and also who are reasonably well experienced with being on this forum.
So in some respects, it would be fairer, to get the opinions of actual beginners to this forum. See how happy or not, they are at telling the good/best answers, from the less helpful ones.