Quote Originally Posted by Keltest View Post
If I wanted to know about fishing, I would ask somebody defined by their experience with fishing, ie a fisherman, not somebody who is in proximity to fishing such as his son.
Exactly. To slightly rephrase the same point as previously, in a world where there are actual resources readily available, such as "googling 'how to fish'", "getting then reading 'Fishing for Dummies'", and even "asking a fisherman", we can approximate "asking someone who happens to be related to a fisherman" as being, in comparison with the aforementioned options, pretty close to "asking a random person".