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"Another thing—be clear with your clients in terms of what their expectations are, and provide falsifiable success metrics" I'm going to assume that that is a

"Another thing—be clear with your clients in terms of what their expectations are, and provide falsifiable success metrics" I'm going to assume that that is a typo (and they meant unfalsifiable) as it doesn't really make sense in the context of what I've heard about Patrick before.

kd5bjo 12y ago
"verifiable" is probably a better replacement; the intention is that everyone can agree on whether or not the expectations were met.
tim333 12y ago
They mean metrics you can check such as "sales increased 50%" as opposed to things like "we reinvigorated the sales paradigms" which you can't prove true or false. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability)
pjmorris 12y ago
I think they're referring to the philosopher Karl Popper's notion of 'falsifiability', the idea that a claim must be possible to proven false to be admissible in a scientific theory. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
- mijoharas 12y ago
  ok, this makes lot of sense, I guess I somewhat misparsed the text. EDIT: I wonder if it counts as misreading or misunderstanding, to not notice that a word is an auto-antonym?
  - wglb 12y ago
    How is that an antonym? The point to "falsifiable" is the statement is made about an event is capable of being false, not that it is false.
    - Semiapies 12y ago
      Use of the word outside of scientific contexts often confuses people, because the common verb "falsify" has a completely different meaning.
    - mijoharas 12y ago
      auto-antonym[0] is a word that means both one thing, and something else that is the opposite of that. This dictionary[1] (second result on google) has definition one meaning the opposite of definition two, thus the word is an auto-antonym. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym [1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/falsifiable http://www.thefreedictionary.com/falsifiable
      - roel_v 12y ago
        Those two definitions aren't opposites of each other. They're two different things.
  - bildung 12y ago
    Think about falsifiable as "veriviable"/"provable". Falsifibility in Patricks sentence stems from scientific theory. From the POV of critical rationalism a thing is never really provable because there always remains a bit of doubt whether the observed result of an action really is a result of that action and not secretly influenced by some unknown variable. But a proper theory is falsifiable, i.e. it can be proven that action did not lead to a specific result. So think of Patricks statement as "always give concrete, measurable goals".

kd5bjo 12y ago

"verifiable" is probably a better replacement; the intention is that everyone can agree on whether or not the expectations were met.

tim333 12y ago

They mean metrics you can check such as "sales increased 50%" as opposed to things like "we reinvigorated the sales paradigms" which you can't prove true or false. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability)

pjmorris 12y ago

I think they're referring to the philosopher Karl Popper's notion of 'falsifiability', the idea that a claim must be possible to proven false to be admissible in a scientific theory. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

mijoharas 12y ago
ok, this makes lot of sense, I guess I somewhat misparsed the text. EDIT: I wonder if it counts as misreading or misunderstanding, to not notice that a word is an auto-antonym?
- wglb 12y ago
  How is that an antonym? The point to "falsifiable" is the statement is made about an event is capable of being false, not that it is false.
  - Semiapies 12y ago
    Use of the word outside of scientific contexts often confuses people, because the common verb "falsify" has a completely different meaning.
  - mijoharas 12y ago
    auto-antonym[0] is a word that means both one thing, and something else that is the opposite of that. This dictionary[1] (second result on google) has definition one meaning the opposite of definition two, thus the word is an auto-antonym. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym [1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/falsifiable http://www.thefreedictionary.com/falsifiable
    - roel_v 12y ago
      Those two definitions aren't opposites of each other. They're two different things.
- bildung 12y ago
  Think about falsifiable as "veriviable"/"provable". Falsifibility in Patricks sentence stems from scientific theory. From the POV of critical rationalism a thing is never really provable because there always remains a bit of doubt whether the observed result of an action really is a result of that action and not secretly influenced by some unknown variable. But a proper theory is falsifiable, i.e. it can be proven that action did not lead to a specific result. So think of Patricks statement as "always give concrete, measurable goals".