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American healthcare: are you an expert? [Quiz]

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

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As technology and education become more broadly accessible, people are being exposed to more information than ever before. It’s easier than ever to choose convenience over reliability or accuracy—to search for symptoms on WebMD instead of asking a doctor, or consult Wikipedia for definitive answers to every question. All this newly accessible yet unreliable information has produced a wave of ill-informed and angry citizens.

Inspired by The Death of Expertise, in which Tom Nichols explores the dangers of the public rejection of expertise, we’ve created a series of quizzes to test your knowledge. Take this quiz to see how much you know about the American healthcare system. Then watch the video below to see how OUP employees fared against political scientist expert Lawrence R. Jacobs.

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Featured image credit: Medical Documents – Hospital Patient Records by wp paarz. CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr.

Lawrence R. Jacobs (Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know) is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute and Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Jacobs can be found on Twitter at @larryrjacobs.

Tom Nichols (The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters) is Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College, an adjunct professor at the Harvard Extension School, and a former aide in the US Senate. He is the author of several works on foreign policy and international security affairs, including The Sacred Cause, No Use: Nuclear Weapons and US National Security, Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War, and The Russian Presidency. He is also a five-time undefeated Jeopardy! champion, and one of the all-time top players of the game. Nichols can be found on Twitter at @RadioFreeTom.

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  1. Michael Weiss

    One of the questions asks when the “American Care Act” was signed into law. The name of the law is “Affordable Care Act.” Hard to know what to make of people answering this wrong, since the question mis-identifies the name of the law.

  2. Priscilla Yu

    Michael, thank you for pointing this out. We have now fixed the error in the question.

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