Faced with murky models, the best they can do is examine assumptions and ensure disclosure.
So a series of attacks on convoys that killed six American soldiers has impelled military officials to re-examine assumptions about what kind of behavior to expect from liberated Iraqis.
Some professors wondered aloud whether they had been naïve to think that things would be different at a university, and said they were forced to re-examine assumptions about confidentiality.
His new analysis is clearly intended to provoke his peers to re-examine assumptions made over the last 10 years, particularly by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of hundreds of scientists working together under the auspices of the United Nations to assess global warming and possible responses.
This paper uses sensitivity analysis and a fiber-bundle model (FBM) to examine assumptions underpinning root-reinforcement models.
For the designer that means critically examining assumptions about tensions and developing a complicated range of understanding tensions and new organizational practices to accommodate them.
The model is used to examine assumptions behind software development models commonly described in software engineering literature, and compare these with the observed way scientists develop software.
I also think some of the artists here are more willing to take certain risks with their work, challenging the status quo and re-examining assumptions about art history.
Perhaps it's just that I had to reach a place where I could re-examine assumptions about happiness in order to find a way to see a greater good.
The highest compliment I can pay "The Fall" is to say it reminds me of the terrific novels of Tana French, Laura Lippman and Denise Mina, which use crime and violence as a framework to examine assumptions about class, sanity and social hierarchies.
