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==Use in literature== [[Mark Twain]] defined an expert as "an ordinary fellow from another town".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brady |first1=Justin |title=The troubling flaws in how we select experts |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2014/06/25/the-troubling-flaws-in-how-we-select-experts/ |access-date=10 November 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=June 25, 2014}}</ref> [[Will Rogers]] described an expert as "A man fifty miles from home with a briefcase." Danish scientist and Nobel laureate [[Niels Bohr]] defined an expert as "A person that has made every possible mistake within his or her field."{{sfn|Coughlan|1954}} [[Malcolm Gladwell]] describes expertise as a matter of practicing the correct way for a total of around 10,000 hours.
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