{"id":88,"date":"2009-11-30T22:46:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T06:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/1e9a82b97b349f20"},"modified":"2009-11-30T22:46:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T06:46:54","slug":"healthcare-epistemocrat-the-primal-blueprint-an-epistemocratic-map-for-health-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/healthcare-epistemocrat-the-primal-blueprint-an-epistemocratic-map-for-health-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"healthcare epistemocrat: The Primal Blueprint: An Epistemocratic Map for Health Decision Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Maps matter.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Especially in <a href=\"http:\/\/fora.tv\/2009\/01\/27\/Nassim_Taleb_and_Daniel_Kahneman_Reflection_on_a_Crisis\">cognitive psychology<\/a> (thanks to Dave Lull).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In practice, cognitive maps for decision making don&#8217;t tell you where to go or how to navigate in every specific case or at every point in time; instead, they provide sign posts, indicators of contours and textures, notes about landscapes, and other framework-related notions such as social-scaffolding nodes, platforms, outlines, and forewarnings. Maps provide information for people to make choices in their particular situations: <a href=\"http:\/\/epistemocrat.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/ancestral-fitness-choice-architecture.html\">maps serve as choice architecture<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But that does not mean that all maps are created equal. It also does not mean that all maps are useful. Personally, when given the choice, I prefer to move about the world without a map rather than to rely on the wrong map: I don&#8217;t want a false-sense-of-security or a false-confidence in the wrong map to lead me off the edge of a cliff like a lemming. Rather, I want a map that assists me in <i>negative<\/i> <b>Black Swan<\/b> avoidance while positioning me with exposure to <i>the envelope of serendipity<\/i> so that I can capture <i>positive<\/i> <b>Black Swan<\/b> hits along the way.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maps matter.Especially in cognitive psychology (thanks to Dave Lull).In practice, cognitive maps for decision making don&#8217;t tell you where to go or how to navigate in every specific case or at every point in time; instead, they provide sign posts, indic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}