Inthis instalment of Ask An Expert, we've been asked to help Adrian Fitch with a Bentley fuel gauge issue which has been causing him countless trouble and where the cause seems to be a bit of a mystery.
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The court then reviewed the twelve photographs the owner had introduced into evidence and concluded that they were insufficient to indicate to a layperson that the plumbing work was obviously or grossly defective. As a result, the common knowledge exception did not apply, expert testimony was required, and the contractor was entitled to judgment in its favor on this claim because the homeowner had failed to offer any expert evidence.
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An assessment of decision-making capacity is the accepted procedure for determining when a person is not competent. An inferential gap exists between the criteria for capacity specific abilities and the legal requirements to understand relevant information and appreciate the consequences of a decision. This gap extends to causal influences on a person's capacity to decide. Using a published case of depression, we illustrate that assessors' uses of diagnostic information is frequently not up to the task of bridging this inferential gap in a justifiable way. We then describe cases of faulty judgement which challenge the understanding of diagnostic causal influences. These cases help to clarify the nature of the expertise required for capacity assessments. In practice, the requirements of decision-making capacity are often abandoned to other considerations due to a lack of requisite expertise. The legal policy supporting decision-making capacity as a means to protective intervention is justified only if the requisite expertise is developed. We propose the requisite expertise to be developed in the long term as a distinct multidisciplinary endeavour.
The death toll from last week's massive wildfire that ripped through Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast has risen to 15, hospital sources said on Monday with experts pointing to faulty wiring as a possible cause.
Agriculture ministry figures showed more than 1,000 sheep and goats perished as a result of the blaze with locals in Koksalan village in Diyarbakir province telling AFP some victims died trying to save their animals.
The government said "stubble burning" was the cause but the Diyarbakir branch of the Chambers of Turkish Architects and Engineers (TMMOB) ruled that out and pointed to faulty electric cables as the likely trigger.
"The fire could have been caused by the power cables," it said in a report released late on Sunday, indicating that there was "no stubble" in the area and that electric wires there were in a state of disrepair.
The findings came two days after an expert report sent to the local public prosecutor's office said conductive wire "broke and ignited the grass on the ground and it spread to a wide area due to the effect of strong wind."
The villagers filed a legal complaint and won, with a Diyarbakır court finding DEDAS guilty of not properly maintaining the infrastructure and ordering it to pay compensation. It was not clear how much.
The pro-Kurdish DEM party, which criticized the government's slow response to the fire, called for a parliamentary inquiry to determine responsibility and hold public bodies accountable for the blaze.
Sarah Ellis: Hi, I'm Sarah and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. This week is one of our Ask the Expert episodes and you're going to hear me in conversation with Cheryl Einhorn. Together, we're going to be talking about problem-solving, and I asked Cheryl to join me on the podcast because we've done a bit of work together. I then watched her give a talk, and what was really impressive for me and where she really stands out is that she's someone who listens and absolutely wants to be as useful as she can be in helping us all to get better at problem-solving. And I just feel like it's one of those skills that we all have in common.
So, whether it's smaller work problems that you're navigating every week or a bigger career dilemma that you're trying to figure out and problem-solve your way through, I hope everyone finds this episode really useful. I'll be back at the end to say goodbye but in the meantime, I hope you really enjoy listening. Cheryl, thank you so much for joining us on the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm really looking forward to our conversation today.
Sarah Ellis: And so, we're going to dive deeply into this topic of decision-making and problem-solving. And in our Squiggly Careers, I think we are solving problems every day, every week, all of the time. There's always too many problems and not enough time, right? I think that's how we probably all feel. Some of these problems that you might be grappling with could be about your career, you're listening now and you've got some big problems that you're thinking around, "Where could my career take me?" Or perhaps you feel like you're stalling or a bit stuck. Or maybe you're just thinking, "Well, how do I get better at problem-solving in my day-to-day job with the problems that my manager sends my way, or the problem of prioritising? So, it's certainly not a topic that will feel unfamiliar but I'm interested to start by hearing from you what gets in the way; why are we all not naturally brilliant at problem-solving; what are some of the barriers that perhaps we've got to overcome?
Cheryl Einhorn: What a terrific question to start with. I think some of the things that get in the way is that, first, I think we're only beginning to realise that decision-making is a discipline unto itself. Traditionally, we haven't been taught to think about decision-making, whether it's at home or in our schools, and we haven't really confronted how is it that we make decisions, we haven't really thought about what is our own process. And it generally dawns on us over time that different people solve problems differently, and that's confusing as well. So, I think one is the self-awareness and the general awareness of decision-making. I think the second thing is that there's a set of what I call decision-making myths that get in the way.
And by this, I mean social norms that we don't realise tend to make problem-solving even more difficult, and I'll just give you two examples. One is, we often tend to think that efficiency is very important when it comes to problem-solving, "Oh, I need to make this decision and I want to get it done". But efficiency is about productivity and it's not about efficacy. So, that is one thing that we confuse. And then the other thing is, because we often want to tackle what's right in front of us because we're busy, we have a lot of things that we want to do, we may be only solving this problem in this moment, which misses out on the frame or the context or the larger problem that it is that we actually need to solve. And so, for a couple of those reasons, we don't necessarily engage with our decisions in a way that makes us feel good about it, feel empowered, feel like we have agency and feel like we're moving forward well into our future.
Sarah Ellis: I think though it can be difficult, I think what's reassuring, certainly as we've got to know each other and I've become more familiar with your work, is my sense is this is definitely a learnable skill that we can all get better at, so there's hope for all of us.
Cheryl Einhorn: There's hope for all of us. I think there's two kinds of learning: there's knowledge and there's skill, and I do think of decision-making as a set of skills. And the reason why I think that's so hopeful for all of us is that means that I can teach those skills to you and they can be yours, and then you can feel better about how you engage with the data of your lives, which is really what our decisions are.
Sarah Ellis: And so you looked at decision-making and how we make decisions and thought individually about these problem-solver profiles that we're going to dive into, because we all love a profile because it gives us something to start with, and I think to your point earlier, to understand ourselves, because I think often perhaps we make the mistake of thinking, "I've got to find a formula.
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