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COMMENTARY: Silver Bullet Junkies and the Codifiers That Love Them: Behavioral Roots Behind a Legacy of Bad Modeling and Use
Author(s) -
Bendoly Elliot,
Speier Cheri
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
decision sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.238
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1540-5915
pISSN - 0011-7315
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2008.00188.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , silver bullet , ideal (ethics) , work (physics) , key (lock) , sociology , public relations , engineering ethics , marketing , psychology , computer science , business , political science , law , engineering , computer security , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , anthropology
As research continues to evolve, it is important to look back with a critical eye on its impact on practice and what is guiding its trajectory into the future. In this work we discuss some of the key behavioral drivers that taken as a whole have made for a less than ideal relationship between research, model development, and use/reliance in practice. From a general public‐good perspective, there is an obvious need for academics to take on a greater role of responsibility when it comes to both research and curriculum in an effort to avoid some of the failings that our past work has inevitably encouraged to date.