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Never Trust a Single Number

12 June, 2018 by James Lawther 1 Comment

Big Point Metric

Dubious statistics Journalists love to use single numbers, they do it all the time: Three British women will get pioneering womb transplants 4,000 foreign criminals including murderers and rapists we can’t throw out  NHS hospitals save £400,000 by switching to same brand of surgical gloves But single numbers are meaningless.  People quote point metrics and […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: availability heuristic, data presentation, measurement, point measure

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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