A museum director, in order to finance expensive new acquisitions, discreetly sold some paintings by major artists  All of them were paintings that the director privately considered inferior  Critics roundly condemned the sale, charging that the museum had lost first-rate pieces, thereby violating its duty as a trustee of art for future generations  A few months after being sold by the museum, those paintings were resold, in an otherwise stagnant art market, at two to three times the price paid to the museum
Clearly, these prices settle the issue, since they demonstrate the correctness of the critics' evaluation
It rejects the judgment of the experts in an area in which there is no better guide to the truth than expert judgment.