[Web4lib] The data death spiral

[Patricia F Anderson]

Your dad's favorite book is linked form the bottom of the article! :-) 
Obviously, Scott Berkun agrees with you ... -- Patricia Anderson, 
pfa at umich.edu

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Thomas Edelblute wrote:

> I went to the link and read it through.  My first thought is that "these
> suckers that are that disillusioned to follow data that way can be too
> easily manipulated with false data."  Just check out my dad's favorite
> book from decades back "How to lie with statistics" (I forget who the
> author is).
>
>
> Thomas Edelblute
> Anaheim Public Library
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Alexander
> Johannesen
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 5:29 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] The data death spiral
>
> Hi folks,
>
> On the SIGIA-L list someone pointed to
> http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/?p=147, and I got stuck on number two ;
>
> "No opinions are considered without data. Opinions are good if they come
> from smart thoughtful experts. If you are in a world where you, as an
> expert, can't make obvious improvements without 10 pages of supporting
> material, guess what happens? Nothing happens. People spend all their
> time defending the obvious and the scale of work, and the energy to
> improve, drops dramatically."
>
> Given the commitee structures of the library world, does anybody but me
> feel I'm living in this spiral?
>
>
> Alex
> --
> "Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know."
>                                                         - Frank Herbert
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