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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 19 2012 @ 04:17 PM EDT |
Any person who believe that truthfulness is better than hubris.
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| Authored by: artp on Monday, August 20 2012 @ 01:29 PM EDT |
I don't mind claiming to be an ordinary person. It's all
relative, isn't it? There are groups where I look like an
expert, and groups where I take notes.
The problem that I see with this strategy is that expert
witnesses are supposed to be more than ordinary. I suspect
that an "ordinary" person would be challenged by the
opposition and disqualified before they could testify.
It has happened to me in a courtroom before. Testimony was
on the source of a fire. All you had to do was add up power
draw and show that there were too many gadgets on the line.
It's a basic operation taught to ALL freshmen engineering
students. A licensed electrician could do it just as well,
or better than some. Anybody who could add could have seen
that the totals were too high even if they didn't know about
the power factor. But the court insists on an electrical
engineer, with over four (five? it's been a while) years of
experience who has
passed the Engineer-in-Training (EIT) test and the
Professional Engineering test, and who is paid up on their
licensing fees in the state where the legal action is being
contested. Unless you are employed by a large firm who also
employs a Chief Engineer who fits the above statement.
I was just a Registered Professional Engineer in Mechanical
Engineering licensed in two states who had been responsible
for electrical, electro-pneumatic and electro-hydraulic
instruments used in oil refineries, power plants and
chemical plants. No expert in that courtroom. I got a
chuckle out of it. I was good enough for safety systems on
the North Slope of Alaska or in a nuclear power plant, but
not good enough for a trailer fire. The law needs to get in
touch with reality.
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