NATS 1765 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Crustacean, Bounded Rationality, Model Organism
14 Nov 2018
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Class 6: continue of class 5: third trouble with experts; the god trick. Why are experts sometimes wrong: this happens because they play the god trick in which they believe they have no pespectived at all (just like god) A good example are lab tests, because they question that what happens in lab may not occur in field, where conditions more complicated. There are a lot of different maybes and questions generated: Maybe pesticide works differently on different organisms (ones not tested upon) Case 1: neonics", lab tests and the field: problem: model organism" / test species" used in lab tests to determine toxicity not an insect but aquatic crustacean (daphnia). The situation here is that they are been examined but manufacturer lab tests are not saying anything, or just saying the wrong thing. So if we test it or not, the result is still wrong. So what do we do: duelling scientists: question them, they are not experts!
