The Avalanche Review ยท Apr 1 2019
Much of the human factors literature in snow safety decries the fallibility of humans and their poor decision-making, but this article posits that the work done by avalanche professionals is quite exceptional. While it is true that part of risk perception and decision making can be subject to flawed thinking and dangerous biases, this is only one small dimension of a much broader understanding of what constitutes expert performance in uncertain, changing environments. This article will describe the conditions that makes snow safety difficult while drawing comparisons to highly skilled practice in other high risk/high consequence domains and then make a pitch for using this perspective to explore some useful avenues for making progress on accident prevention.
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