Knowledge Questions The Good, the Bad and The Ugly

Good KQ OK KQ Poor KQ Not a KQ To what extent can human sciences use mathematical techniques to make accurate predictions? How can we use models to predict crime waves? Will police crime predictions turn out to be correct? How can we prevent crime? What are the criteria for each of these categories? What makes a good knowledge question good?

Good KQ OK KQ Poor KQ Not a KQ What is it about a scientific explanation that makes it convincing or unconvincing? How can we decide if acupuncture works or not? Does acupuncture work? Traditional Medicine What are the criteria for each of these categories? What makes a good knowledge question good?

Good KQ An open question, explicitly about Knowledge broader than the RLS Couched in terms of relations between concepts from AoK, WoK and belief, certainty, culture, evidence, experience, explanation, interpretation, intuition, justification, truth, values. OK KQ An open question, explicitly about Knowledge. Poor KQ A closed question, implicitly about Knowledge Not a KQ A statement or a closed question, about a subject specific question rather than about Knowledge per se What is it about a scientific explanation that makes it convincing or unconvincing? How can we decide if acupuncture works or not? Does acupuncture work? Traditional Medicine

Good KQ An open question, explicitly about Knowledge, broader than the RLS Couched in terms of relations between concepts from AoK, WoK and belief, certainty, culture, evidence, experience, explanation, interpretation, intuition, justification, truth, values etc OK KQ An open question, explicitly about Knowledge. Poor KQ A closed question, implicitly about Knowledge Not a KQ A statement or a closed question, about a subject specific question rather than about Knowledge per se To what extent can human sciences use mathematical techniques to make accurate predictions? How can we use models to predict crime waves? Will police crime predictions turn out to be correct? How can we prevent crime?

Good KQ An open question, explicitly about Knowledge broader than the RLS Couched in terms of relations between concepts from AoK, WoK and belief, certainty, culture, evidence, experience, explanation, interpretation, intuition, justification, truth, values. OK KQ An open question, explicitly about Knowledge. Poor KQ A closed question, implicitly about Knowledge Not a KQ A statement or a closed question, about a subject specific question rather than about Knowledge per se Should we believe paranormal claims? Does the paranormal exist? The Sixth Sense ?

Good KQ An open question, explicitly about Knowledge broader than the RLS Couched in terms of relations between concepts from AoK, WoK and belief, certainty, culture, evidence, experience, explanation, interpretation, intuition, justification, truth, values. OK KQ An open question, explicitly about Knowledge. Poor KQ A closed question, implicitly about Knowledge Not a KQ A statement or a closed question, about a subject specific question rather than about Knowledge per se Is swine flu likely to ill millions? What do we mean by an‘epidemic’? ? ?

Good KQ An open question, explicitly about Knowledge broader than the RLS Couched in terms of relations between concepts from AoK, WoK and belief, certainty, culture, evidence, experience, explanation, interpretation, intuition, justification, truth, values. OK KQ An open question, explicitly about Knowledge. Poor KQ A closed question, implicitly about Knowledge Not a KQ A statement or a closed question, about a subject specific question rather than about Knowledge per se ? ? The credit crisis ?

Good KQ An open question, explicitly about Knowledge broader than the RLS Couched in terms of relations between concepts from AoK, WoK and belief, certainty, culture, evidence, experience, explanation, interpretation, intuition, justification, truth, values. OK KQ An open question, explicitly about Knowledge. Poor KQ A closed question, implicitly about Knowledge Not a KQ A statement or a closed question, about a subject specific question rather than about Knowledge per se Your own ideas?

Good Knowledge questions are: Open questions explicitly about Knowledge per se and not about subject-specific claims; they are broader than the real-life situation, and so can easily be connected to other examples Couched in terms of relations between concepts from AoK, WoK and belief, certainty, culture, evidence, experience, explanation, interpretation, intuition, justification, truth, values.