Talk:Situation awareness

situation awareness vs. situational awareness
The terms are used inconsistently in the article. They are not technically the same. Situation is a noun and situational is an adjective. I believe that situation awareness is the correct term, but I have never made edits before and wanted some confirmation before making the changes. --Ch427 (talk) 13:43, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

I agree, the article does not infer its broad range. When I think of "Situation Awareness", what comes to mind is "an individual being aware of his or her surroundings before they act or fail to act" example: you are attending a sports game between two crosstown rivals and you end up in the opposing team bleachers. User: retrograde62] 10:25 AM PST, 9 November 2018  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.154.161.230 (talk) 18:26, 9 November 2018 (UTC)


 * In every Situational Awareness training refresher I have had (which is annually) it's called "Situational Awareness." In fact in my annual training and in my chainsaw safety training which is also annual, it's called "Situational Awareness."


 * Coast Guard usage (PDF file)
 * Medical training (PDF file)
 * So it appears to me that both terms are used globally, interchangably. Damotclese (talk) 19:14, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Edit: I should add some examples in the emergency medial arena and in the chainsaw arena. Damotclese (talk) 20:42, 30 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, but grammatically "situational awareness" is correct because the adjective describes the noun. By contrast, "situation awareness" would have a noun describing a noun, which makes no sense. Furthermore, "situational awareness" gets 2,510,000 Google search results while "situation awareness" gets only 445,000. Thus, WP:COMMONNAME states this article should be moved back to the former. I will request administrator assistance because a redirect currently stands in the way of the necessary move. – voidxor (talk &#124; contrib) 21:21, 20 July 2015 (UTC)


 * This appears to be a British/American English difference and requires a full move discussion. Rmhermen (talk) 16:15, 29 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Is that to say that MOS:ENGVAR trumps WP:COMMONNAME? – void  xor  21:30, 3 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Am having difficulty in finding any clear British/American English difference. But, just for the record, Google search gives about 684,000 results "situation awareness" and about 3,520,000 results for "situational awareness". So maybe a move of the article title is justified? Martinevans123 (talk) 19:32, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It's not really an issue, anyone looking for the page will find it regardless, I don't see that it matters, no need to change anything. Damotclese (talk) 02:38, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd agree there's no real possibility of confusion, But WP:COMMONNAME says "Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it generally prefers to use the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources." I'm no fan of being enslaved to Google search but I think suggest a ratio of about 7:1 is quite telling. I ealise that redirects mean a reader will never get lost, but we'd never use redirects to justify, say, a spelling mistake in a title, would we? Martinevans123 (talk) 17:17, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Editing more details on relationship between situational awareness and pilot error
I believe I can expand more about the impacts of situation awareness on pilots. I can write about the effects of cockpit environment and other external and internal environmental factors.
 * Effects of Modes of Cockpit Automation (PDF file)
 * Analysis of situation awareness for cockpit display Hhur2 (talk) 03:31, 12 October 2015 (UTC)


 * It is interesting that the research PDF mentions luck as being a factor. Damotclese (talk) 16:27, 12 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Interesting that Wei et al (2013) chose to measure SA directly using SAGAT and heart-rate, while Guk-Ho et al 2012 used only indirect methods - Modified Cooper-Harper, heart-rate and trail success/failure. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:10, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

No longer stub class
With a number of editors providing improvements, the extant article is no longer STUB class, I think it warrants B now. Also importance from Low to Mid seems to be appropriate. Damotclese (talk) 16:21, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Another suitable reference
The Amtrak derailment was caused by a loss of situational awareness and a lack of Positive Train Control, as Covered In This Article which would be a suitable reference or segment in its own right. TrainsOnTime (talk) 22:31, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree, and I saw your note on PTC. Damotclese (talk) 14:53, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Promotion -- National Information Sharing Consortium
The recent addition of "National Information Sharing Consortium" appears to be blatant promotion. It needs to be re-worded. Damotclese (talk) 16:52, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for removing BP spam
Looking at the history of this page it looks like there is a lot of attempts to spam / Blatant Promotion this page. Thank you for removing the spam link to the thepreppingguide web site. SoftwareThing (talk) 17:10, 18 December 2018 (UTC)