Robert Evans
Cardiff School of Social Sciences
Imitation Game Research Reported in Nature
A recent article in Nature describes some of the work that Harry Collins and I have been doing on the nature of expertise. The main focus of the argument is Harry’s ability to pass as a gravitational wave physicist in a Turing Test experiment. The article also refers to our other work on expertise, including the Turing Test experiments on colourblindness that will be published in the December 2006 issue of .Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
If you have on-line access to Nature, you can read the article by clicking on the reference below.
Giles, Jim (2006) 'Sociologist fools physics judges'. Nature, Vol. 442 (6 July 2006), p. 8.
If you don’t have access to Nature but want to see for yourself how hard faking it as a gravitational wave physicist is, answer to the question below and then compare your answer to the answers given by Harry Collins and a practicing gravitational wave physicist.
A theorist tells you that she has come up with a theory in which a circular ring of particles is displaced by gravitational waves so that the circular shape remains the same but the size oscillates about a mean size. Would it be possible to measure this effect using a laser interferometer?
For more information about our expertise research, please visit Harry
Collins and Rob Evans's Expertise Project website.
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Last updated on 13 July, 2006