How To Measure Anything (HTMA) Series

  3 reasons why people think something cant be measured. They are rather misunderstandings. Concept - People misunderstand the concept of measurement itself. Once, you get it, you will say a lot more things are measurable than you thought before. Object - The things being measured is not very well defined. Sloppy and Ambiguous language is used. Method - Many people are simply not familiar with different methods to measure things. 3 reasons why people think something shouldnt be measured. Economic Objection - Too expensive to measure General Objection to meaningless of Statistics - You can prove anything with Stats. Circle Jerking BS. Ethical Objection - Dont wanna ask the hard questions needed to measure it. The Concept of Measurement Only an inexact man would call things exact. Measurement is not perfect nor certain. Defn of Measurement - Quantitaively expressed, reduction of uncertainity, based on one or more observations. Measurement is mere reduction of uncerta...

  SOLID QUOTE FROM MALCOLM GLADWELL ABOUT DOGGEDNESS The Chapter starts with a lightning bolt of a quote from Malcolm Gladwell, Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. —Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success MEASUREMENT MENTORS Like I was implying in the previous chapter as I referenced Lord Kelvin, the Author specifically utters the word "measurement mentors" here, - individuals who saw measurement solutions intuitively and often solved difficult problems with surprisingly simple methods In this chapter, the Author describes three such people, from different times... One man was from Ancient Greece, who estimated the circumference of Earth, using simple geometry. Another man was Enrico Fermi, the Nobel prize-winning physicist, who.. well, who was straight up gangster at this shit. And a nine-year-old girl, w...

  PEOPLE WHO GAVE US UNITS OF MEASUREMENT The book starts with a quote from Lord Kelvin, this is the guy who gave us the unit of measurement for Heat. I remember his weird experiment to measure heat from my school days. Its interesting that this guy is mentioned at the start of this book. In a way this quote is not just point to him, but everyone in the past who introduced any units of measurement. The whole concept of coming up with a unit of measurement requires a sophisticated understanding, so all these guys may be a potential mentor. Anyway the quote goes like... "When you can measure what you are speaking about, an express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of science." Basically Einstein said, unless you can teach it, you have not really learnt it.. and Lord Kelv...