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The Certainty Trough

In: Exploring Expertise

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  • Donald MacKenzie

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How does intimate knowledge of technologies affect confidence in them? One might expect that those closest to these technologies would have the highest confidence in them, and those ignorant of them would be fearful. This expectation, however, turns out to be an oversimplification. The relationship between proximity and confidence is not a simple linear one, and several pieces of research suggest the more complicated pattern shown schematically in figure one.

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  • Donald MacKenzie, 1998. "The Certainty Trough," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Robin Williams & Wendy Faulkner & James Fleck (ed.), Exploring Expertise, chapter 15, pages 325-329, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-13693-3_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13693-3_15
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    1. Lee Stapleton, 2015. "Do academics doubt their own research?," SPRU Working Paper Series 2015-24, SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Business School.

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