[Sigia-l] TMI - and expert-level knowledge

[Donna Fritzsche]

>This "expertise gap" is rife in academia, but few recognize it, let 
>alone know how to correct for it.


The expertise gap that Rugg mentions is very real - it actually 
happens in our community. His solution also make sense when time is 
on your side.

In a situation that requires quick thinking,  Im not sure that his 
solution could be applied though.

Donna

At 10:21 AM -0500 2/7/05, Thomas Vander Wal wrote:
>Compare Blink to Gordon Rugg's identification of problems with relying
>on patterns in the Wired article on Rugg and his verifier method
>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/rugg.html).  Gladwell gets to
>some of the problems with patterns, but Rugg's assessment really
>drives this home.
>
>ATB,
>Thomas
>
>
>On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 15:11:07 -0500, Listera <listera at rcn.com> wrote:
>>  Donna Fritzsche:
>>
>>  > This looks fascinating - one question I have, do you know if the
>>  > examples they give apply mostly to fields such as medicine -where the
>>  > experts (in this case, doctors) have alot of precompiled,
>  > > academically learned  and experience- based information?
>>