Re:Longbets: A bioerror will lead to one million casualties ...
by darawk on Thursday December 10, 2020 @03:55AM
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Ya, and to add to that, it's often difficult to define what exactly the 'field' is. Is the field biology? Is it statistics? Risk? The anthropology of terrorism? Answering a complex question like "will there be a bioterror event that kills 1 million people" doesn't really fit neatly into any of these categories, because it combines information from a number of fields to synthesize the final answer.
I disagree. It is actually sometimes quite illuminating listening to an expert using heuristics outside of his field of expertise. As a mental excercise.