Just had to share this little gem I ran across…
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From Gigerenzer, G. (2004). “Fast and frugal heuristics: The tools of bounded rationality.” A decision theorist … was struggling whether to accept an offer from a rival university or to stay. His colleague took him aside and said, “Just maximize your expected utility – you always write about doing this.” Exasperated, the decision theorist responded, “Come on, this is serious.” |
How we study things matters. And how we communicate the limitations, simplifications, and assumptions to potential users of our research — well, that matters even more.
In social-ecological systems research, there are infinite options for how to characterize the people in the system. I’m always excited to see the ever-growing community of researchers that are working to bring research and real world representations closer together, finding innovative analytical approaches to do this as respectfully, pluralistically, and meaningfully as possible.