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 […]
A Sense of Perspective
Fear of the new We don’t like things that are new or unusual. It is part of our nature. When we were cavemen, it paid to be risk averse. New things could bite us, so we preferred what we knew. The status quo made us feel safe. That is why we invest in risk and control departments. […]
How to Miss the Point
A tragedy On the 14th December 2012 in Newtown Connecticut, Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother. He then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School where he murdered twenty-six children and six adults. Finally he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Twenty-eight senseless deaths. Wikipedia describes the what happened that day. It was […]