by ALN | Jul 8, 2014 | Confirmation Bias, Information Analysis, Information Gathering
Someone, most probably a Creationist, at the Henry Grady High School in Atlanta tried to use a cartoon in a freshman biology class that showed evolution, humanism, homosexuality, pornography, racism, euthanasia, divorce and abortion as the work of Satan and at war...
by ALN | Jun 8, 2014 | Decision Making, Information Analysis, Information Gathering, Information Management, Management
Here is an email I got this morning: Wednesday’s ADP number suggested a sub-200K reading for today’s May BLS jobs report. That would be a significant disappointment after April’s robust 288K. But ADP is far from a flawless indicator. So estimates for...
by ALN | Jun 4, 2014 | Decision Making, Improve Communication, Information Management
The impacts of the Printing Press are the Reformation and the Age of Enlightenment. In the essay below, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, presents a thoughtful and I think very important conclusion. As she puts it: The impact of printing, experienced first by literate groups...
by ALN | May 28, 2014 | Analog Communication, Information Gathering, Information Storage and Retrieval
The problem for anyone that locks their world view into the 1st century bible is we live in a 21st century digital age. It is very hard to copy the Torah, it is less hard to copy the Bible, and infinitely easy to copy 21st century digital bits. The fact that we can...
by ALN | May 27, 2014 | Analog Communication
Let me go on record and acknowledge that I truly understand that while getting good enough information for learning is fairly easy, getting the “BEST” information for learning is not so easy. The reason is “Noise.” There are a number of environmental and...
