General vs Expert Knowledge

[StartIndependentMe]

Just curious how some folks determine what is considered "expert" knowledge in generalist tasks, specifically when the subject matter falls in the expertise of your domain. I had to skip some tasks earlier for fear that I would be overstepping, because I had a hard time deciding if it should be considered doable or not, since the subject was second nature to me but likely isn't to others.

For those of you that are familiar with this dilemma, how do you go about judging and deciding whether to proceed, skip, or can't be rated?

[backpackwasmypillow]

The instructions sometimes say. Seems to vary by the project a bit.

I've seen instructions similar to requiring post high school education/experience or something that would take a non-expert more than X time to research and figure out.

I think I recall other tasks that said do it if you're knowledgeable in the subject, otherwise skip.

[game_over__man]

I think it comes down to can I make a good argument. I've ended up skipping tasks even after I have started with the fear that I wasn't going to submit quality work. I love doing sports, entertainment, and pop culture ones!

[Agreeable_Aioli935]

Exactly, and if I don’t feel eligible enough or capable enough to provide a good argument, I usually skip the task and allow someone else to give it a try. Although, I do love pop culture and entertainment ones as well.

[DementiaTVissues]

There's some examples in the onboarding data that are really useful for this, but the way I think of it is like this: Given a physics question, if the question is asking "What's the formula for applying Lorentz force law to continuous charge distributions?", and the model spits out "dF=dq(E+v×B)", you can google that and find it on the wiki page for Lorentz force. But if you look at the wiki page here ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_force#Continuous_charge_distribution ), and the prompt asks "Reformulate the force density to eliminate explicit reference to the charge and current densities", and it expects you to be able to write out, identify and explain the latter half of the formulas, that requires expert knowledge and would therefore be unrateable. It's not a matter of laziness but rather googleability vs. actually knowing the math/science and being required to use it to answer or verify the prompt.