Assessment - Bill O'Brien LO16637

Bill Harris (billh@lsid.hp.com)
Wed, 21 Jan 1998 16:36:34 -0800 (PST)

Replying to LO16632 --

Roxanne wrote:

> my work as a Compensation Specialist. Slowly I began to realize that
> although management loved quatitative analyses, the important issues
> generally couln't be measured or at least couldn't be measured with
> validity. Deming was a statistician who evolved into a mangement

I've often thought that Lord Kelvin did the world a great disservice (or,
to be fair to him, we misuse his words to do ourselves that great
disservice) through his often quoted, "If you want truly to understand a
thing, you must be able to assign a number to it" (or however it goes).

Regards,

Bill 

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