Hmm, I like the concept of "fast and frugal heuristics". that would work.
Yeliz.
On 3/17/06, Bjorn Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeliz Eseryel wrote:
> Adelson(1984) said: Experts seem to solve problems and provide answers,
> and yet, when asked about how they arrived at these answers, they don't
> seem to be able to explain exactly how. (The underlying assumption here,
> is that they still outperform novices). I am trying to give references
> for this phenomenon, but I can't think of it. This idea is prevalent in
I believe that this is what philosophers refer to as "tacit knowledge".
See for example:
http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/tacitknowledge.html
> the expert studies as well as in management literature. In fact some
> popular management readings mentioned the "managerial intuition"-which
> emphazised that when faced with problems, the first decision that
> experts make tended to be the correct one. In reality, (my take on this
> is that), it doesn't have anything to do with intuition, rather, most
> likely, it is something to do with the ability of experts to "abstract"
> the situations, and then find within their experiences a matching
> experience and then apply lessons learned from the previous experience--
> in a vacuum...
A related possibility is that they use what Gigerenzer calls "fast and
frugal heuristics" -- simple rules-of-thumb that are correct most, but
not all, of the time.
--
Yeliz Eseryel
Ph.D Student in Information Science & Technology
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
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