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This-essay is a7309031.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %ACCURACY SYNDROME 730903 Victims of the accuracy syndrome tend to have a dominant focus upon accurate measurement and computation- --to the exclusion of considering and caring about order of magnitude analysis. To such persons, fulfillment is not seen in the decisions and action which are facilitated through quantitative analysis. Fulfillment is anticipated in the endless improvement of the accuracy of measurements and computations --- and the new puzzles that may be revealed through such improvements. Such technocrats are not likely to be interested in helping real students develop the ability to perform order-of- magnitude analyses---which are the basis of most meaningful decisions and action. Long ago any physicist might have sensitized his students to the inevitability of the fuel crisis by an elementary order of magnitude analysis focusing on such relevant fundamentals as: energy conservation, forms of energy, stored solar energy, and human exponential growths. Because such an analysis need not involve accurate data---it has tended to be of little interests to victims of the accuracy syndrome. The fact that the general awareness of typical citizens is essential to the welfare of the nation (and nationally supported science activities) has not usually been a dominant focus of considering and caring. In the service of the accuracy syndrome much expensive equipment has been developed. Such educational resources have helped to teach students about how clever technocrats can be. Rarely have such educational resources helped students fulfill their own potentialities. If the student learns anything, it is likely to be his own incompetence---compared to the technocrat's great competence; "I'm Not-OK, You're OK." By focusing on the science relevant experiences of real students and upon the pattern of decisions and actions which may constitute wise behavior in their future, it may be possible to escape the, enslavement of the accuracy syndrome. Through a liberal education students may become free to choose and act in wise ways-- -rather than in response to parental traditions or childish emotional responses to problematic situations. (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in GO: essayz.com "Search for Integrity and Honesty" (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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