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Originally Posted by KnifeMissile
Being able to watch a film doesn't qualify you to be a film critic, either. In case you don't already know, film critics are paid to be read by millions of people because they are able to articulate what they think of a movie beyond "I liked it" and "it sucked."
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Originally Posted by JinnKai
There are TONS of jobs that are dont require you to do be able to "do" before you can "assess". Software Assurance, for example. You don't have to program a day in your life to know what appeals to a customer (GUI / Error Messsages, etc). It requires no knowledge of the underlying code, but only an eye for quality.
Likewise, someone who is a studies marketing or even pyschology might be better versed to "critique" whether a car is good. Not whether it's got the horsepower or the torque, but whether people will like it. And they don't have to know anything about the car itself - only if people will like it.
In the same way, an art critic doesn't have to know anything about how the art was made, or even be able to make the art - as long as they're good at deciding what people will like and what they will not like.
The list goes on..
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Okay, points well made and taken. I still don't like the idea of a professional critic but I see where you're both coming from and will concede the point that my earlier comments may have been a bit overly critical.