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Ann. Occup. Hyg., 2016, Vol. 60, No. 4, 421–431 doi:10.1093/annhyg/mev098 Advance Access publication 13 January 2016
Wishful Thinking? Inside the Black Box of Exposure Assessment Annemarie Money1, Christine Robinson1, Raymond Agius1 and Frank de Vocht2* 1.Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, Institute of Population Health, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Centre for Epidemiology, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; 2.School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PS, UK *Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +44-(0)-117-928-7239; e-mail: [email protected] Submitted 11 May 2015; revised 25 November 2015; revised version accepted 12 December 2015.
A B ST R A CT Background: Decision-making processes used by experts when undertaking occupational exposure assessment are relatively unknown, but it is often assumed that there is a common underlying method that experts employ. However, differences in training and experience of assessors make it unlikely that one general method for expert assessment would exist. Therefore, there are concerns about formalizing, validating, and comparing expert estimates within and between studies that are difficult, if not impossible, to characterize. Heuristics on the other hand (the processes involved in decision making) have been extensively studied. Heuristics are deployed by everyone as short-cuts to make the often complex process of decision-making simpler, quicker, and less burdensome. Experts’ assessments are often subject to various simplifying heuristics as a way to reach a decision in the absence of sufficient data. Therefore, investigating the underlying heuristics or decision-making processes involved may help to shed light on the ‘black box’ of exposure assessment. Methods: A mixed method study was conducted utilizing both a web-based exposure assessment exercise incorporating quantitative and semiqualitative elements of data collection, and qualitative semistructured interviews with exposure assessors. Qualitative data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Results: Twenty-five experts completed the web-based exposure assessment exercise and 8 of these 25 were randomly selected to participate in the follow-up interview. Familiar key themes relating to the exposure assessment exercise emerged; ‘intensity’; ‘probability’; ‘agent’; ‘process’; and ‘duration’ of exposure. However, an important aspect of the detailed follow-up interviews revealed a lack of structure and order with which participants described their decision making. Participants mostly described some form of an iterative process, heavily relying on the anchoring and adjustment heuristic, which differed between experts. Conclusion: In spite of having undertaken comparable training (in occupational hygiene or exposure assessment), experts use different methods to assess exposure. Decision making appears to be an iterative process with heavy reliance on the key heuristic of anchoring and adjustment. Using multiple experts to assess exposure while providing some form of anchoring scenario to build from, and additional training in understanding the impact of simple heuristics on the process of decision making, is likely to produce a more methodical approach to assessment; thereby improving consistency and transparency in expert exposure assessment. K E Y W O R D S : exposure assessment; exposure assessment methodology; exposure estimation; expert assessment; hygiene assessment; qualitative methods; retrospective exposure assessment
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I N T RO D U CT I O N The decision processes employed by individual experts when doing qualitative, quantitative, or semiquantitative expert assessments to estimate occupational exposure remains relatively unknown. It is often assumed there is one common method by which all experts do their assessment as a result of their training (e.g. based on some official rules or guidelines) and that therefore ideally these can be captured in a conceptual model (Vadali et al., 2009; Logan et al. 2011; Vadali et al., 2012). However, it is more likely that if such a conceptual model can be found it will differ between individual experts because of their training, experience, familiarity with the process, and other factors. As a result, in those situations where the assessments cannot be directly compared to exposure measurement data it is difficult, if not impossible, to assess the quality and validity of these assessments or even to compare the assessments of different experts with each other. It is argued that this is of particular concern in multi-centre studies where the quality of the exposure assessment does not only depend on the ability of each local expert, but also on the feasibility of standardization of the work of the experts from the various distant settings (‘t Mannetje et al., 2003). As a result, an important drawback of using experts is that it remains unknown how these experts make their decisions, while their estimates generally cannot be formalized, validated, and compared within and between studies (Kauppinen, 1996; Kromhout, 2002). Attempts have been made previously to gain insights into exposure assessment experts’ internal decision making processes using statistical (Burstyn et al., 2013; Pronk et al., 2012) or structured, deterministic (Cherrie et al., 1996; Fritschi et al., 2009) methods. However, because of the data and methodologies of analysis used these relied on the underlying assumption that experts use a similar ‘internal methodology’ to assess exposure. Indeed, although on average they can be used to reproduce expert’s assignments for very simple, binary metrics, e.g. such as shown for the use of classification trees (Wheeler et al., 2013), significant discrepancies remain; especially for more elaborate metrics such as for example ordinal assessment (Wheeler et al., 2013, 2015). A likely explanation is that experts do not all use the same assessment methodology, despite the underlying physical model being equal, as a result of differences in internal decision-making processes.
The study of heuristics in human decision making was first advanced by Simon (1972). Heuristics are deployed by everyone as short-cuts or to make the often complex process of decision-making simpler, quicker, and less burdensome. For example, more recognizable terminology describes heuristics as, a rule of thumb, trial and error, intuition, an educated guess, or just common sense (Shah and Oppenheimer, 2008). It is a way for the mind (of the decision-maker) to make decisions even though all the relevant information may not be available, where the problem is particularly complex, or where time is pressing (situations all too familiar to occupational hygienists). Experts’ assessments are subject to various simplifying heuristics when making judgements (Vadali et al., 2009). The best known of these heuristics are ‘representativeness’ (Grether, 1980; Agnoli, 1991), where the decision-maker relies on a factor being ‘representative’ or similar, c

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