People who are new to a field usually listen to experienced experts. Of course, they don’t uncritically accept whatever they’re told. But they tend to feel that they need fairly strong reasons to dismiss the existing consensus.
I’m not sure I agree with this, so it is not obvious to me that there is anything special about GP research. But it depends on who you mean by ‘people’ and what your evidence is. The reference class of research also matters—I expect people are more willing to believe physicists, but less so sociologists.
Yeah, I agree that there are differences between different fields - e.g. physics and sociology—in this regard. I didn’t want to go into details about that, however, since it would have been a bit a distraction from the main subject (global priorities research).
I’m not sure I agree with this, so it is not obvious to me that there is anything special about GP research. But it depends on who you mean by ‘people’ and what your evidence is. The reference class of research also matters—I expect people are more willing to believe physicists, but less so sociologists.
Yeah, I agree that there are differences between different fields - e.g. physics and sociology—in this regard. I didn’t want to go into details about that, however, since it would have been a bit a distraction from the main subject (global priorities research).