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by calinet6 12y ago
How would this be different from simply increasing the size of the control group? Or subdivide the control into N groups of sufficient size in order to more effectively visualize the variation?
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Epic?
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Shortest, most concise version of the right answer. Science is the doubt and uncertainty part, not the results part. New and better results should always be celebrated, and when framed right, they are. We need better science and liberal art
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by calinet6 12y ago
The main problem is really that people are not educated on what science is, exactly. You hint at it by separating 'scientific consensus,' but I think it's a deeper problem. Science is not truth, and it does not produce facts;
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by calinet6 12y ago
The problem here is not with science itself, but the expectation of what science is, and what it tells us, and how. People are not educated on science, period. The popular perception is that science tells us facts about the world. This is f
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by calinet6 12y ago
Exactly because the situation is reversed: the banks are much more likely to be strategic and self preserving than the general public, due to concentration of power and many other factors.
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by calinet6 12y ago
True for very large lenses where the dust and front element is sufficiently far and disproportionate to the aperture size! But for smaller cameras, especially cell phone cameras, that dust and smudge is magnified immensely and has a much
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What We Can Learn About Systems from W. Edwards Deming(scottsantens.com)
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by calinet6 12y ago
As many have said, it is more complex. But there are two great insights here: 1. Productivity is a system, not a sequence. Many things are interrelated and motivation is often generated by simple completion of tasks. 2. Motivation without o
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by calinet6 12y ago
I've asked on social media, and got some shallow boilerplate responses, but nothing truly revealing. I'd love to know more as well. Either they're not very transparent, or they're not valuing this component of the busine
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by calinet6 12y ago
I find it's closer to the norm that a company doesn't begin the product design process correctly, and shifts to a period of quality-impacting chaotic whitewater where the product is considered 'sellable' and it becomes m
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by calinet6 12y ago
This is the ticket. Slack is operating on three principles. One, that their product actually has value commensurate with its price. That's a remarkable tenet for any product, and it keeps them honest. Two, demanding a high value for a
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by calinet6 12y ago
Even before a beta, work with your prospective customers directly and closely. Determine what they really need and how you should really solve their problems before even presenting a product. If you don't do that before building a prod
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An extremely unified, well-designed, and likable marketing story and brand really helps them. Again, I think the holistic quality at play throughout the organization is being greatly underplayed.
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Accuracy would be great, but I don't believe accuracy existed; wasn't there still a great deal of uncertainty?
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In a word, quality. In a few more words, the product appears to have been designed with user needs in focus more than the others, and the end product is closer to solving them. The article reveals some of the ways they've achieved that
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by calinet6 12y ago
There's something much deeper going on here, and I don't think Butterfield or the media understands it. What I'm reading is that Slack underwent a critical period of user-focused product design. This is the story of a produc
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by calinet6 12y ago
Yeah, being in eastern New England, the forecast was pretty spot on. So what if it missed NYC?
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That's fascinating, thanks for the links and the insight.
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To be blunt, I don't think this perspective is accurate or well thought out, and it comes in the form of an emotional attack which is not likely to be well received as an argument. Inevitably when a sector grows, you're bound to h
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by calinet6 12y ago
In an individual manner commensurate with their contribution and market value, as simply and clearly as possible. It is not complicated, and making it complicated is how we end up in cultural negative feedback loops. The standard performanc
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by calinet6 12y ago
The answer to both is to look one level up, at the meta question. Both of your answers are still about evaluating individuals. Instead, look to the system both individuals are in. In this case, the system encompasses the evaluation itself,
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by calinet6 12y ago
The main thing I read in this parable is the intense focus on comparing individuals and putting them at odds, instead of working to find the best way they can work together in a good system. What's the core problem there? Why do people
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by calinet6 12y ago
If you read the original article in full, it covers this type of situation quite well. This is true: both employees and managers believe the blame and the heroics go to individuals , and this is a fundamental attribution error. The vicious
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by calinet6 12y ago
I never said I looked at it—we work with it, meaning we develop products which allow customers to operate on their own data.
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But one example of the dysfunctional situation present in that case. Many other examples of individualistic politics exist.
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A "paycheck" is too individual to successfully result in quality in an organization larger than a couple dozen. The correct method is to understand the system of work, and implement good process to continually improve it. Quality
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by calinet6 12y ago
An extremely good primer on quality at the organizational level. Even if it's your "job" to make quality products, the visibly rewarded metrics are often counter to the desired result. The assumed management strategy is to in
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by calinet6 12y ago
I work at Localytics. We have analytics data from billions of mobile and web users, including specific user actions, usage in general, and user profiles. It really is a fascinating dataset.
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by calinet6 12y ago
Yes, absolutely. When people talk about big data, more often than not it's a measure of complexity and difficulty, not size.

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