But I think at the end of the day, you have to be looking at the assumption that, like any professional, whether it's your doctor or your attorney or an engineer, that they're exercising their best professional judgment when it comes to safety".
It's a compelling argument, until you start to look at the assumptions that you have to make to accept it.
The social constructivists may suggest that we need to look at the assumptions as values embedded in the artifacts as such (as was suggested above).
As you encourage others to look at their assumptions, look at your own.
Rescue medication was assumed in 38%% of PCF treatments and 45%% of SUM treatment, without significant differences (Fisher exact test: p = 0.3308), even looking at the timing of assumption, i.e., before or 3 h after the first treatment (Fisher exact test: p = 0.2245).
We evaluated this assumption looking at two factors: 1) whether members of the cliques are known to function as a module based on literature, and 2) whether the members of the cliques have shown physiological or genetic interactions in previous experiments.
If it does nothing more than to say to people that we should look at that assumption again, then it has served its purpose".
In a recent guest post, Girl On The Net looked at the assumption that women "love a bad boy", the cliché that women are attracted to more rebellious, undisciplined, aloof characters who play by their own rules like "treat them mean, keep them keen" etc.
The Penn State sexual abuse scandal provides an important opportunity to look at the assumption of risk entities take on when they work with kids yet fail to have strong child protection policies in place.
"I think there's a feeling that people need to sharpen their thinking skills, whether it's questioning assumptions, or looking at problems from multiple points of view," says David A. Garvin, a Harvard Business School professor who is co-author with Srikant M. Datar and Patrick G. Cullen of an upcoming book, "Rethinking the M.B.A.: Business Education at a Crossroads".
