by Roger Koppl
I’ve been railing against epistemic monopolies for a while now, particularly in forensic science. This project complements Peart and Levy’s work on experts. (See their symposium the 2008 Eastern Economics Journal, vol. 38 starting page 103.) I keep insisting that we need redundancy to reduce error rates. Economists, forensic scientists, and philosophers have all pressed me for data on error rates. How big a problem is this really? Continue reading