Your reflective hiatus before your next essay brought to mind Gladwell’s book “Blink” and the potential dangers of “shortcut” assessments / thinking. There is, it seems to me, a bit of a chasm between Polayni’s tacit knowledge and Gladwell’s “intuitive” judgements. I’m looking forward to your upcoming post — take all the time you need.
Thank you! And thanks for making that connection as well, which then opens my thinking to Kahneman and Tversky's "Heuristics & Biases", more popularly shared by Kahneman in "Thinking Fast and Slow"; and the book we read "Blind Spot" by Banaji and Greenwald. I think this Fall in my intro course on these topics for DPT students I may have them watch "Moneyball" (or read the book), as well as "The Undoing Project" (same author as Moneyball - Michael Lewis) which resonates with the work of psychologist Paul Meehl's "Statistical Prediction vs. Clinical Prediction" - https://meehl.umn.edu/sites/meehl.umn.edu/files/files/155dfm1993.pdf where he tries to demonstrate that in the long term, statistical prediction outperforms clinical prediction, although to figure that out he had to use some statistical analysis!
Your reflective hiatus before your next essay brought to mind Gladwell’s book “Blink” and the potential dangers of “shortcut” assessments / thinking. There is, it seems to me, a bit of a chasm between Polayni’s tacit knowledge and Gladwell’s “intuitive” judgements. I’m looking forward to your upcoming post — take all the time you need.
Thank you! And thanks for making that connection as well, which then opens my thinking to Kahneman and Tversky's "Heuristics & Biases", more popularly shared by Kahneman in "Thinking Fast and Slow"; and the book we read "Blind Spot" by Banaji and Greenwald. I think this Fall in my intro course on these topics for DPT students I may have them watch "Moneyball" (or read the book), as well as "The Undoing Project" (same author as Moneyball - Michael Lewis) which resonates with the work of psychologist Paul Meehl's "Statistical Prediction vs. Clinical Prediction" - https://meehl.umn.edu/sites/meehl.umn.edu/files/files/155dfm1993.pdf where he tries to demonstrate that in the long term, statistical prediction outperforms clinical prediction, although to figure that out he had to use some statistical analysis!