Your personal safety is determined one decision at a time. Sometimes you are dependent on the decisions of others. Other drivers, your doctor, the guy who puts new brakes in your car. But how does ...
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Tag Archive: statistics
2 Situations, an Either-Or Choice in Each
Do you know much about your own decision processes? Are you risk-averse? We think differently depending on how the choices are stated. Consider this ...
Forced Ranking – Who’s the Best?
I'll start with my HR hat on - I do not like forced ranking or required distribution of employee ratings. If you don't know what that means, well, you are fortunate. Basically, it is a system of taking large groups of employees and ranking them from ...
How’s My Driving – Revisited
A few posts back I wrote about an incident in which a failed to respond to a traffic signal at the correct time and nearly caused an accident. No one honked or yelled at me, which would not have corrective effect, but my own recognition caused ...
Too Many Celebrities Are Dying
On Twitter last week, I caught a couple of tweets with the idea that too many famous people have died recently. I thought that was an interesting idea, and wondered how many is just enough? Everyday people die across a city, a country, a ...
What Do You Want Your Statistic To Be?
I love statistics. Or how people use statistics to prove a point. I remember someone telling me that statistics are like a light pole. It can illuminate or it can be used by a drunk to hold himself up. Take this one for example: Seventy-five percent of all adult deaths are preventable. I don't remember exactly ...
