On October 25, 2014 at 14:47, bcf1963 said...
I heartily disagree. At least a doctor or lawyer has passed a certain basic level of scrutiny. Lawyers must pass the Bar in their state, and doctors must serve a residency. Both professions must demonstrate a certain level of theoretical knowledge, and then demonstrate a level of practical application. This is common in many professions, but is lacking for what most in this forum define as CI's.
PS: Engineers have their equivalents along with Dr's & Lawyers, when it comes to theoretical knowledge and practical application.
Certification is a baseline, but not a guarantee of performance. Mostly, it is a checkbox for the service shopper.
I lived in a building with a medical doctor who tested well and was licensed in several states. He had a photo retentive memory and could quote months old conversations and long lost research papers and their citations verbatim. It was unnerving to be around him. But, he could not make any inferences and tie the papers together. If your condition exactly fit one of the case studies he had read about, he could pull the research paper out of his head, otherwise he was useless. No one would want to be his patient. Even the other professionals avoided this guy, but I bet he would be terrific as a research person in a legal practice. Ask him about the case of 'A' vs 'B', and he'd be able to lay out all of the testimony and opinions instantly. But, don't ask him to lay out a case strategy for something slightly different.
