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| Terms |
Definitions |
| Epistemology |
The theory of knowledge. |
| Expert bias (cognitive bias) |
Experts and lay people alike are subject to a variety of sources of
cognitive bias in making assessments. Some of these sources of bias
are as follows:
overconfidence,
anchoring,
availability,
representativeness,
satisficing,
unstated assumptions,
coherence.
A fuller description of sources of cognitive bias in expert and lay
elicitation processes is available in Dawes (1988). |
| Extended facts |
Knowledge from other sources than science, including local knowledge, citizens' surveys, anecdotal
information, and the results of investigative journalism. Inclusion of extended facts in environmental
assessment is one of the key principles of Post-Normal Science.
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| Extended peer communities |
Participants in the quality assurance processes of knowledge production and assessment
in Post-Normal Science, including all stakeholders engaged in the management of the problem at hand. |
| Extrapolation |
The inference of unknown data from known data, for instance future data from past data, by
analyzing trends and making assumptions. |
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