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early observations of how seven criminal intelligence analysts think and how they make inferences. We used the Critical Decision Method to identify the causal mechanisms of how they think and reason, i.e. how they organize, structure and assemble their information, understandings and inferences

Informal causal reasoning is central to the wa y we re a-son about narra tives and we can think of devel oping ways to analyse data such that explanations and narratives can be developed and used quickly to drive further sense -making

nalysts are often faced with missing data. Sometimes they are aware of this, but often not. Because of missing elements of the needed data, analysts have to make guesses and adductive inferences to create plausible explanations that are developed via the Broadening / Narrowing model, rather than having access to “a full set of undisputed findings t... See more

VALCRI user interface will be operated by tactile reasoning (Tak ken & Wong, 2015) , an interaction technique that supports sense making by the direct manipulation of information objects in the user interface.

In the parable of the blind men and the elephant, each paid attention to a different aspect of the creature. The brain may do something similar by mapping out the qualities of perceptions, experiences and abstract concepts along various dimensions, with the help of the same system that it uses to map out physical spaces.

Sentinel intelligence refers to a special cognitive ability that allows someone to detect threats before anyone else.

As a generalist, is pop culture more important? Or is the collective knowledge of humanity for the last 2,000 years more important?