Situational awareness is further lauded by elite military units, police trainers, criminals, intelligence analysts, and human factors researchers. In other words, people who have to make very important—often life-or-death—decisions based on limited information consider situational awareness a critical skill.
Note that most of those people operate in very time-sensitive environments. Yes, perceptual efficiency matters a lot with limited information.
In general, I agree that SA is useful, though I wouldn’t quite call it the zeroth skillset. For the sequence, are you intending a description of what being SA means, or are you trying to prescribe a training regimen for SA? If so, remember to build small skills in the right order.
It may be a matter of connotation vs. denotation. Situational awareness is usually taken to mean keeping track of immediate sensory information in order to take life-saving or injury-avoiding action, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expand situational awareness to include Fleming noticing that penicillin was killing his bacteria.
I remember a story where the perfume of a woman messed up some biology experiment. When she was in the room the experiment produced different results than when she didn’t.
If you run any scientific experiement it’s important to be able to notice alternative ways of why your experiment produced the result that it did.
Note that most of those people operate in very time-sensitive environments. Yes, perceptual efficiency matters a lot with limited information.
In general, I agree that SA is useful, though I wouldn’t quite call it the zeroth skillset. For the sequence, are you intending a description of what being SA means, or are you trying to prescribe a training regimen for SA? If so, remember to build small skills in the right order.
It may be a matter of connotation vs. denotation. Situational awareness is usually taken to mean keeping track of immediate sensory information in order to take life-saving or injury-avoiding action, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expand situational awareness to include Fleming noticing that penicillin was killing his bacteria.
I remember a story where the perfume of a woman messed up some biology experiment. When she was in the room the experiment produced different results than when she didn’t. If you run any scientific experiement it’s important to be able to notice alternative ways of why your experiment produced the result that it did.