Comments on: Are You Measuring The Right Things? http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/02/08/are-you-measuring-the-right-things/ Insights and ideas on personal impact, parenthood, education, and sports from the Vice President of Red Sox Nation. Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:18:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ggwfung http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/02/08/are-you-measuring-the-right-things/#comment-184 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:50:14 +0000 http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/02/08/are-you-measuring-the-right-things/#comment-184 In a world of computers and statistics, numbers can be tyrannous. It’s such a blunt instrument.

As you say, it’s the context and the _meaning_ of the numbers that is important, not just a raw figure.

I think the stock exchange and so-called ‘IQ” are the two worst examples of blunt numbers that deceive many people.

Seth always has nice insights. Totally unafraid.

ggw

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