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This reminds me of Eli Goldratt's quote: "Tell me how you measure me, I will tell you how I behave."
by raister 2y ago
This reminds me of Eli Goldratt's quote: "Tell me how you measure me, I will tell you how I behave."
- whack 2y agoCorollary: "If you do not measure me, I will not behave"
- eventuallylive 2y agoStrictly speaking this is not the contrapositive and therefore the proof is yet to be seen. A sound corollary: "If I do not behave, it is because you did not measure me."
- lotsofpulp 2y agoIs a contrapositive a corollary? P implies Q is logically equivalent to Not Q implies Not P. A corollary would be some other relation that can be deduced as a result of P implies Q, not simply a restatement of P implies Q. (Using the discrete math definition of imply, not the colloquial definition of imply).
- moefh 2y agoYes, a corollary can be just the contrapositive of something you just proved. Sometimes it's even more trivial, like a special case of a general theorem you proved. A very common use is to re-state something so it's in the exact form of something you said you'd prove. Another common case is to highlight a nice incidental result that's a bit outside the path towards the main result -- for example, it immediately follows (perhaps logically equivalent to) something that's been proven, but it's dressed in a way that catches the attention of someone who's just skimming.
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- ryandv 2y agoThis is coming very close to denying the antecedent, one of the most basic formal logical fallacies.
- hinkley 2y agoNo, I’m gonna do what I want to do. If you hire good people “what they want to do” is going to be what they think is right. Which may or may not be.
- tirant 2y agoParallel to Munger’s “Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome” which I think all of us have or will realize for ourselves at some point in life.