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Tacit knowledge

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Alexander M. Walker *
DOI:10.1007/s10654-017-0256-9delete
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Information that is not made explicit is nonetheless embedded in most of our standard procedures. In its simplest form, embedded information may take the form of prior knowledge held by the researcher and presumed to be agreed to by consumers of the research product. More interesting are the settings in which the prior information is held unconsciously by both researcher and reader, or when the very form of an effective procedure incorporates its creator's (unspoken) understanding of a problem. While it may not be productive to exhaustively detail the embedded or tacit knowledge that manifests itself in creative scientific work, at least at the beginning, we may want to routinize methods for extracting and documenting the ways of thinking that make experts expert. We should not back away from both expecting and respecting the tacit knowledge the pervades our work and the work of others.
Keywords:
Assumptions
Algorithms
Artificial intelligence
Emergent properties
Embedded properties
Expert assessmen
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European Journal of Epidemiology cover
European Journal of Epidemiology
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