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In that case, I think they meant to say: "known unknowns" Perhaps this is just semantics but I have always thought of "unknown unknowns" as being in that mirk
by splawn 9y ago
In that case, I think they meant to say: "known unknowns"
Perhaps this is just semantics but I have always thought of "unknown unknowns" as being in that mirky realm of "every single possible thing".
Perhaps I should have been more charitable and less pedantic, which is honestly hard for me to do when I see someone passionately argue against something I thought was a scientific consensus.
- sametmax 9y agoYeah I prefer the term "precaution principle", it's more straight forward because it describes the action instead of what's motivate it. But known unknowns and unknown unknowns are not the same things though. known unknowns are a space you can account for. It's easy to put a number of it. unknown unknowns not so much, and dealing with it is more a matter of morality than science. You can't scientifically deal with something you can hardly define or quantify.