At the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting, neuroscientists are interested in the tricks magicians use to fool us ( http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/48544/title/Magic_for_neuroscientists ). It seems that magicians are keenly aware of issues we humans have. How we perceive is a very...
In his book, How to Measure Anything , Douglas W. Hubbard laments the reluctance of IT organizations to use inferential statistics for measurement. Hubbard poses the question of how to measure the number of fish in a lake. Many IT decision makers might respond just to drain the lake, kill the fish, then...