> Ed, > > Are you arguing that the questions that generate an idea for a lab > experiment are not based on some theory? that the theory comes out of some > vacuum rather that some assumptions about human nature, etc? that the way > the experiment is set up also comes out of a vacuum of some sort rather than > some preconceived ideas about the nature of life? > > Selma > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ed Weick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Brian McAndrews" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 2:21 PM > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Re: Not ideological (was More crap again) >
No, I'm not arguing that. Experimentation does have to be theoretically based and it may also be ideologically based. What it attempts to do is determine whether something that is theoretically founded is actually supportable by testing under rigorous conditions. That's all I'm saying. What Kahneman and Tversky did was test whether people are rational under conditions of uncertainty of outcomes. What they found was that it depends very much on how the question is put to them. Kahneman, incidentally, won the Nobel Prize for economics for his efforts. Tversky could not share it because he had died a few years previously. Ed Ed > > > > > > > > At 1:17 PM -0500 12/20/02, Ed Weick wrote: > > > >However, K&T were psychologists, > > > >not economists, and therefore better equipped to use the laboratory. > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Ed, > > > And because they are 'better equipped to use the laboratory' is that > > > suppose to mean that there is no ideology at play in the lab?! Don't > > > the methods and procedures of the lab grow out of a faith in a > > > particular ideology i.e. western science? > > > > > > Take care, > > > Brian > > > > OK, but I think that's taking the point a little too far. I would argue > > that science is science, and not ideology, though it has served > ideological > > purposes. One has to allow people curiosity that is not necessarily > > ideologically driven. All a lab does, or is supposed to do, is to allow > > that curiosity to be satisfied in as neutral a setting as possible. Of > > course, labs don't always do this. > > > > Ed > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Futurework mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
