An Imitation Game concerning gravitational wave physics

Collins, Harold ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2909-9035 2016. An Imitation Game concerning gravitational wave physics. [Online]. arXiv. Available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07373

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Abstract

The 'Imitation Game' is a Turing Test played with a human participant instead of a computer. Here the author, a sociologist, who has been immersed in the field of gravitational wave physics since 1972, tried to pass an Imitation Game as a gravitational wave physicist. He already passed such a test in mid-2000s but this test was more elaborate and compared his performance with that of other kinds of physicists and with other sociologists as well as gravitational wave physicists. The test was based on 8 technical questions about gravitational wave physics asked by Professor Sathyprakash of Cardiff University. Collins marks compared well with that of the other gravitational wave physicists and were markedly better than that of other classes of respondent. Collins also marked the test and it can be seen that the way he marked was also much closer to the gravitational wave physicists than other categories. Though Collins's expertise can be shown to have degraded a little in the last ten years it seems not to have degraded a lot. This is important for his most recent book on the detection of gravitational waves from a black hole binary, this being Chapter 14 of this book, which is due to by published my MIT Press in February 2017.

Item Type:	Website Content
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Submitted
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	arXiv
ISSN:	2331-8422
Last Modified:	03 Nov 2022 09:53
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/106351

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