Today I had the pleasure to talk to Tim about the Coffee Science methodology podcast series. I have known Tim since 2004 and we have met often over many years at different events and coffee projects and the integrity of his mind and the drived business is a continous inspiration from a coffee quality, business, project/vision management and scientific perspective. Hopefully you find inspiration in how we talk about current state of affairs in the business, education systems and scientific approaches to coffee and how we see this into the future.

If you want to learn more about Tim I think his Podcast is a great way to go:
https://timwendelboe.podbean.com/

And obviously his website: https://timwendelboe.no/
And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timwendelboe/

In this podcast episode Andrew Tolley comments on the
Coffee Science methodology podcast series and offers his perspective on science and education in the coffee community
Episode also available with video on: https://youtu.be/U1S0bSbfHdw
Andrew's profile on Knowledge Hub: https://coffeeknowledgehub.com/en/member/5f0ed078ed8093314d29794c

Samo Smrke is a well know scientist and educator in the specialty coffee business and in this episode he offers his perspective on coffee science and education and gives feedback on the coffee science methodology podcast series.

This episode is also available with video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3PCDbFH_GLQ

Some calculations that shows the fundamental problems of using the SCA Cupping Form as an objective parameter estimate of 'quality'.

The term 'Subjectivity' is actually a bit problem when it comes to describing sensory methodology but it can be solved.

In this episode we will look deeper at Bayesianism which is the direction in research design handling the problem of verification and falsification is a really elegant model using probability theory. I'm explaining it using the example of a green coffee experiment.

In this episode I zoom in on Empiricism and Critical Rationalism which I consider the most useful foundation for the concept 'objectivity'

In this episode Occam's razor is introduced which is an important foundation for a good theory and examples of where this is not applied correctly is explained

In this episode we will go all the way back to Plato to discuss what a good theory looks like if it is to serve a community and not mislead

This is the first episode of a series going through theory of science and research design to support the global coffee community with solid ground when building theories and practices for education, product development and quality control. This is a pretty long and deep series of podcast and only the most patient and eager listener will stay through it all and reap the fruits of their patience. We will provide some very specific guidelines and also be completely honest when going through all the theories in roasting and sensory education that we find both wrong and misleading.