| ID | 153083 |
| Title Proper | How do we know? what intelligence analysis can learn from the sociology of science |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Tang, Jeffrey |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Despite the appeal of correctness batting average as a metric for evaluating analysts, such an approach may be fundamentally misguided. Scholarship in the sociology of scientific knowledge demonstrates the inherent difficulty of determining what ‘actually happened.’ Knowledge in intelligence is socially constructed by practitioners and experts, just as it is in science. Thus, the ‘truth’ about what happened in a particular circumstance is what a group of credential experts say happened. Intelligence studies might benefit from insights gained in science and technology studies to illuminate practices and modes of operation that have thus far gone unexamined. |
| `In' analytical Note | Intelligence and National Security Vol. 32, No.5; Aug 2017: p.663-674 |
| Journal Source | Intelligence and National Security Vol: 32 No 5 |
| Key Words | Intelligence Analysis ; Sociology of Science |