Implication of our technological species being first and early

Whitmire, Daniel P.

doi:10.1017/s1473550417000271

Cited by 7 publications

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“…This contritealmost self-doubtingtrend amongst qualitative researchers in their comments about the wider applicability of their work is something I have also seen frequently as a reviewer/editor. It may very well be that "One swallow does not a summer make" but probability suggests the principle of mediocrity (see, Whitmire, 2019) is more likely to apply in any given situation/case study/field study.…”

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Methodological Insights Jumping through hoops: publishing interview-based management accounting research

Tucker

2020

AAAJ

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PurposeThis reflection is aimed primarily at doctoral students, early career researchers and more experienced accounting researchers seeking to undertake interview-based academic accounting research. It is specifically designed to identify and confront some common obstacles to publishing interview-based management accounting research.Design/methodology/approachThis reflection is autoethnographic in the sense that it is based primarily on my publication experience, observations and reflections as an author/co-author and also as a reviewer and editor/editorial board member in submitting, reviewing and evaluating interview-based management accounting research. It therefore adopts a form of participant observation in approach in which the author seeks to provide to readers a sense of “being there” insofar as addressing the barriers to publishing interview-based management accounting research.FindingsWhilst the insights that interview-based accounting research can offer are well established, there remain practical obstacles in publishing this form of research. These obstacles – portrayed in this paper as “hoops” through which authors must jump – largely reduce to challenges in convincing the reader of the credibility and authenticity of their approach and demonstrating the trustworthiness and dependability of the findings and conclusions reached.Research limitations/implicationsThe academic and practical issues raised in this commentary will assist emerging scholars in anticipating and dealing with the challenges they face in submitting these types of studies to academic accounting journals.Originality/valueThis paper is a critical analysis and reflection of the process of publishing interview-based accounting research. Rather than attempting to replicate the many excellent commentaries on this topic, it is designed to be of practical use to emerging scholars in the design, delivery and presentation of qualitative interview-based accounting research with a particular aim of navigating the submission and review process.

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Methodological Insights Jumping through hoops: publishing interview-based management accounting research

Tucker

2020

AAAJ

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“…In the area of studying technosignatures, Bayesian approaches to the famous Drake equation (Drake 1965;Shklovskii & Sagan 1966;Vakoch et al 2015), the Fermi paradox (Brin 1983;Cirkovic 2018b;Forgan 2019), and related topics have been propounded (see Wilson 1984;Glade et al 2012;Haqq-Misra & Kopparapu 2012;Lacki 2016;Verendel & Häggström 2017;Grimaldi & Marcy 2018;Sandberg et al 2018;Bloetscher 2019;Whitmire 2019;Snyder-Beattie et al 2021). However, applications of this methodology to infer the soundness of technosignature candidates themselves are lacking.…”

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Technosignatures: Frameworks for Their Assessment

Lingam

Haqq-Misra

Wright

et al. 2023

ApJ

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In view of the promising advancements in technosignature science, the question of what constitutes a robust technosignature is rendered crucial. In this paper, we first delineate a Bayesian framework for ascertaining the reliability of potential technosignatures by availing ourselves of recent cognate research in biosignatures. We demonstrate that ideal technosignatures must not only have low risk of stemming from false positives but also evince sufficiently high prior probability of existence. Given the inherent difficulties with estimating the latter, we highlight a few alternative metrics drawn from diagnostic testing such as the Youden index that bypass the requirement of explicitly calculating the prior. We apply the models (Bayesian or otherwise) to a select few technosignature candidates and show that artificial electromagnetic signals, chlorofluorocarbons, and artifacts perform well on this front. While these results may be along expected lines, we suggest that identifying and developing suitable approaches to further evaluate technosignature candidates is of considerable importance.

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“…Motivated by the previous exposition, we carry out a quantitative (viz., Bayesian) analysis of the emergence of TI in land-and ocean-based habitats, taking our cue from Bayesian approaches in astrobiology that have sought to address a diverse array of unknowns (e.g., Waltham 2011;Spiegel & Turner 2012;Lacki 2016;Simpson 2017;Waltham 2017;Catling et al 2018;Lorenz 2019;Whitmire 2019;Balbi & Grimaldi 2020;Kipping 2020Kipping , 2021Snyder-Beattie et al 2021;Lineweaver 2022). The structure of the paper is constructed based on the following line of reasoning.…”

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A Bayesian Analysis of Technological Intelligence in Land and Oceans

Lingam

Balbi

Mahajan

2023

ApJ

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Current research indicates that (sub)surface ocean worlds essentially devoid of subaerial landmasses (e.g., continents) are common in the Milky Way and that these worlds could host habitable conditions, thence raising the possibility that life and technological intelligence (TI) may arise in such aquatic settings. It is known, however, that TI on Earth (i.e., humans) arose on land. Motivated by these considerations, we present a Bayesian framework to assess the prospects for the emergence of TIs in land- and ocean-based habitats (LBHs and OBHs). If all factors are equally conducive for TIs to arise in LBHs and OBHs, we demonstrate that the evolution of TIs in LBHs (which includes humans) might have very low odds of roughly 1 in 103 to 1 in 104, thus outwardly contradicting the Copernican principle. Hence, we elucidate three avenues whereby the Copernican principle can be preserved: (i) the emergence rate of TIs is much lower in OBHs, (ii) the habitability interval for TIs is much shorter in OBHs, and (iii) only a small fraction of worlds with OBHs comprise appropriate conditions for effectuating TIs. We also briefly discuss methods for empirically falsifying our predictions and comment on the feasibility of supporting TIs in aerial environments.

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Implication of our technological species being first and early

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

Methodological Insights Jumping through hoops: publishing interview-based management accounting research

Methodological Insights Jumping through hoops: publishing interview-based management accounting research

Technosignatures: Frameworks for Their Assessment

A Bayesian Analysis of Technological Intelligence in Land and Oceans

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