Phil Green
author, misLeading Indicators: How to Reliably Measure Your BusinessCanada | Professional Services - Business Consulting
Alberta election results: 19 times out of 20 (if they don’t change their minds)
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8 days
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The election result this week in Alberta, Canada confounded a lot of people and cast the art of polling in a bad light. The polls predicted that the Wildrose Party would win, but they were trounced by the PC Party. Two days before the election, one poll gave the Wildrose 38% versus the PCs 36%. For the previous week the polls averaged 41% for the Wildrose and 33% for the PCs, a lead of 8%. In the actual election results the winning Progressive Conservative Party had 44% to the Wildrose’s 34%, a loss for Wildrose by about 10%
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misLeading pant sizes-why women aren’t as thin as they think
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29 days
ago,
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The Economist magazine is taking a jab at another sort of inflation. Women’s pant sizes, while nominally the same, have actually been increasing in girth. The British new magazine estimates that an average size 14 pair of women’s pants “is now more than four inches wider at the waist than it was in the 1970s.”
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Facebook’s new check-in measure: accuracy vs practicality
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about 1 month
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Facebook sent out a message the other day on its new way of counting “check-ins” to improve accuracy. The result of the increased “accuracy” will be a drop in the number of check-ins. The message said:
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Hoaxing, forging, trimming, faking, cooking and falsifying measurements
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about 1 month
ago,
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There have been several recent high-profile cases of scientists hoaxing, forging, trimming, cooking or falsifying their data. These cases occurred in spite of the fact that scientific publications must be peer-reviewed before publication, and that scientific findings must be replicated before they are confirmed.
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How do you measure the performance of a business book?
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about 1 month
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Today* stores start selling our book—misLeading Indicators: How to Reliably Measure your Business. It has been a while coming. It’s natural for us as authors to wonder how it will “perform”.
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