Meanwhile, anthropologists like Ed Hutchins http://hci.ucsd.edu/hutchins/ have found out a lot about how people know by actually observing them.
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@Meaningness do you have a 140/280-char summary of Hutchins? :) I'm partial to Popper myself, but intrigued by an anthropological approach3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KevinSimler This might be a better example than Hutchins, actually: http://stuartgeiger.com/wordpress/2008/11/review-talking-about-machines-by-julian-orr/ … cc:@sarahdoingthing Highly influential study.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@KevinSimler “Xerox gives its technicians diagnostic and repair manuals, but these are only used by novices or as a last resort…”1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KevinSimler “the [actual] work is kinesthetic or auditory…” so >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KevinSimler they rely on co-workers, who share techniques, tricks, quick fixes, documentation errors, and most importantly, “war stories”1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Meaningness I'm having trouble figuring what I should get out of this way of looking at things. It seems too obvious to me...2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Also not at all in tension with Popper (not sure if it's supposed to be); just a different level of analysis. Right?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KevinSimler The ethno study of science ends up at a quite different place from Popper, by using quite different methods.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KevinSimler I’m pretty sure they’re incompatible, but conceptual framework is so different it would take a lot of work to get clear on that2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@KevinSimler FWIW, I think Popper is considered simplistic and mostly-wrong within mainstream contemporary phil of sci, but >
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@KevinSimler > it’s been long enough since I looked into that that I may be totally mistaken about that!0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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