Mark Lew1s
My real name is Mark Lewis
Hi all,
I've been asked to speak to a charity that runs cetacean citizen science projects about concepts of certainty and doubt wrt identification. I have plenty of my own ideas about this - but I'll certainly have missed some, and it will be useful to see if my ideas are broadly agreed with/disagreed with. I'd welcome any general thoughts that anyone has on this quite broad topic - but I'd be particularly keen to hear your thoughts on any of the following questions:
Why do people make mistakes?
Why do some people make more mistakes than others?
How do you stop yourself from making mistakes?
How do you know when to apply doubt?
Is there pressure to make identifications? (and if so, from where?)
What are the drivers for 'getting it right'?
That should be enough to be going on with!
Thanks very much in advance.
I've been asked to speak to a charity that runs cetacean citizen science projects about concepts of certainty and doubt wrt identification. I have plenty of my own ideas about this - but I'll certainly have missed some, and it will be useful to see if my ideas are broadly agreed with/disagreed with. I'd welcome any general thoughts that anyone has on this quite broad topic - but I'd be particularly keen to hear your thoughts on any of the following questions:
Why do people make mistakes?
Why do some people make more mistakes than others?
How do you stop yourself from making mistakes?
How do you know when to apply doubt?
Is there pressure to make identifications? (and if so, from where?)
What are the drivers for 'getting it right'?
That should be enough to be going on with!
Thanks very much in advance.