Making the Right Choices When Time is Short
H/T Kurzweilai.net
The above is a vivid computer animation / recreation of Flight 1549's adventure involving a flock of Canada Geese and an unscheduled landing in the Hudson River. The animation is accompanied by radio transmissions between pilot and air trafic controllers (ATC), and between ATC and ATC. Follow the events in real time and decide how long it would have taken most pilots to make all the right choices -- in time.
Such finely detailed competence is generally domain-specific, although persons who learn to think clearly in stressful situations can often transfer that skill to a range of situations. Pilots, surgeons, EMS workers, ICU / ER workers, supervisors in large power and industrial plants, heavy construction engineers and supervisors, etc. etc. all need to be competent to keep people alive, healthy, and prosperous.
It doesn't help when the political leadership is not only incompetent, but doggedly insistent on following a path of economic destruction.
Labels: Portraits of Competence
posted by al fin at 11:35 am
2 Comments:
Well, the ability to make the correct decision instantly is a function of experience, constant practice, and surviving the bad decisions.
A person actually has to make decisions in order to get experience.
Simulations can be quite useful in that regard.
Modern pilots make use of flight simulators. More surgeons are making use of surgical simulators to prime themselves for delicate procedures.
If simulations can be made good enough, most of the really bad decisions can be disposed of in the simulator.
Post a Comment
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act” _George Orwell
<< Home