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View submission: Announcement: New Rules, Guidelines and Flair System
I think that, for adjacent reasons, flair helps me as a panelist as well. I know that when I've answered a question with my Undergrad flair, and then a Prof steps in and corrects, that I'm probably in the wrong and need to amend my answer. That's not to say I always will, because even professors have their philosophical biases, but as a general rule, it means that my answer has missed some nuance or subtext that I'm not aware of. This allows me to amend my answer, which helps both me as a panelist and the person who asked the question, who will now also have access to that greater nuance. If the same person had corrected me but they were unflaired, I wouldn't, as a panelist, be as inclined to research what they had said, gain insight, and amend my answer, and instead might erroneously "correct" them or dismiss them, which would be a disservice to the questioner, who might be misled into ignoring something relevant.
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