“We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enoughContinue reading “The position of analytics in trade-off decision-making”
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How to Meaningfully & Comprehensively Analyse Data in Three Visual Models.
“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.” Ronald H. Coase – Essays on Economics and Economists. I also found this phrase listed as an idiom rather than a direct quote. For a full dive into Coase I can recommend reading into Coase theorem. “Because our educational system is hung upContinue reading “How to Meaningfully & Comprehensively Analyse Data in Three Visual Models.”
The Detection and Quantification of Organisational Dysfunction
“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.” George Canning – Very briefly Prime Minister who also said the rather beautifully nuanced “with keen, discriminating sight, black ’s not so black – nor white so very white.” I won’t try to do the man any biographical justice in this small section though my quickContinue reading “The Detection and Quantification of Organisational Dysfunction”
Providing context to further posts and solving structural and formal writing problems.
“If you read only one book per month, that will put you into the top 1% of income earners in our society. But if you read one book per week, 50 books per year, that will make you one of the best educated, smartest, most capable and highest paid people in your field. Regular readingContinue reading “Providing context to further posts and solving structural and formal writing problems.”
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