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Books Won’t Make You Clever

21 September, 2014 by James Lawther 14 Comments

Children learning

Correlation does not imply causation There is an apocryphal tale about an inner city education department in the American Mid West. In their efforts to increase children’s performance they commissioned an extensive study of the socioeconomic environment their students were raised in, to see what impact it had on a child’s educational prospects.  The study delivered […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: beliefs, correlation, data is not information, global warming, root cause analysis, six sigma

Global Warming? Pah!

20 January, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

I am sitting in my office, slowly turning blue, looking at a good 4 inches of snow.  I thought it was supposed to be getting warmer, the ice caps should be melting and half of East Anglia is going to be under water, yet here I am slowly freezing to death.  Clearly the scientists are […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: data presentation, global warming, point measure, process control

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