A belief is true if it matches the way the world is. If two people disagree, it can’t be that both
are right—that what each believes is “true for them.” Academics currently say, “To prevail in a
debate, an opinion must be informed by the relevant facts and based on sound
reasoning.”
Showing posts with label teachable moments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teachable moments. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Friday, October 16, 2015
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Measles, White House, and Surgeon General
The science is clear, vaccinations protect a population from measles.
Where is CINC Obama on this? Where is the Surgeon General? Who is the Surgeon General?
Schools, counties, and states should be able to mandate medical care. The Federal Government should not. Repeal ObamaCare.
Where is CINC Obama on this? Where is the Surgeon General? Who is the Surgeon General?
Schools, counties, and states should be able to mandate medical care. The Federal Government should not. Repeal ObamaCare.
Friday, December 19, 2014
Shouldn't it be CINC Obama rather than the FBI
The Huffingpost is reporting that the FBI is accusing North Korea of the Sony attack.
Shouldn't it be CINC Obama?
Several years ago I learned that a way to combat terrorism was to punish a
worthy to be punished party for one of these international incidents.
If you punished the wrong party, there were two parties that knew you were
wrong:
1) the one you punished (you should pick a worthy one)
2) the guilty party.
If the guilty party speaks up (convincingly), you punish them.
Nearly all people can believe that the guilty party has been punished after
step 1. In the past, we have had a tremendous advantage in terms of
identification and verification sources.
I can now see how this can be applied to police work.
1) Round up the usual suspect
2) Punish someone worthy of punishment
Johnny Cash has a song about man being executed for a murder that he didn't
do. His mother knew that he was innocent of the murder because he was robbing a
train that day. I think the character had killed a number of people.
The crime and punishment were justified. They were associated with the
wrong victim.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Lessons Learned
Could a “Lessons Learned” be related to a “Teachable Moment”?
While I was still trying desperately hard to earn my pay as a part of the Defense community, my corporation implemented its Systems Engineering website as: Process, Procedures, Tools, and Lessons Learned. Or something similar. There were no Lessons Learned from the past but there was a new database application to record future lessons learned.
My doctorate is in experimental elementary particle physics and my specialty was strong interactions. This was the branch of physics that collected lots of data (bubble chamber photographs), processed them, and then looked for statistical anomalies in the results.
Accelerators, detection devices, and computers were state-of-the-art technology but they were just tools. The information was in the data.
I shared the experience of many during recent decades: I prepared numerous resumes for the newly developed (again) Corporate Database. In 2001, I expressed displeasure with my academic department for sending me a form to provide information for the new department database that was included in the label on the envelope in which the form was received.
I excelled in FORTRAN but I also learned to appreciate COBOL. My working community seemed to like IDEF0; I liked IDEF1X. BPwin was favored by business people; I liked ERwin. My co-workers worked on Conventional Planning and Execution and JDS (Joint Deployment System); I worked on RUM (Resource and Unit Monitoring) and UNIREP.
I have been trained (or learned) that the signal is in the data.
I believe one of the quotes sometimes attributed to Yogi Berra is, “You can hear a lot by just listening.”
If you just listened to a Breitbart interview on CNN, you would have heard that the tape wasn’t about Shirley Sherrod; it was about the NAACP. If you just listened to the “excerpted “tape, you could hear many in the audience chuckle. That was supposed to be the “message” the blogger wanted us to hear.
The Shirley Sherrod incident illustrates the Fog of War. Since it’s not a real war, collateral damage to Shirley Sherrod can be minimized. In a real war, few victims are as lucky.
Gen. Lewis W. Walt, USMC, had a reputation for relieving officers of their command. His view was to protect the units by getting rid of all the bad officers. There were enough good Marines that could fill in for the good ones that were relieved.
“Teachable Moments” may have the same experience as Lessons Learned. People have suggested changing the name to “Lessons Observed”. The rationale is that it is a more descriptive title. The lesson may be observed (possibly, again) but we don’t seem to be able to Learn It. Would the more accurate description for Teachable Moments be “Regrettable Moments”?
(DR)2H
While I was still trying desperately hard to earn my pay as a part of the Defense community, my corporation implemented its Systems Engineering website as: Process, Procedures, Tools, and Lessons Learned. Or something similar. There were no Lessons Learned from the past but there was a new database application to record future lessons learned.
My doctorate is in experimental elementary particle physics and my specialty was strong interactions. This was the branch of physics that collected lots of data (bubble chamber photographs), processed them, and then looked for statistical anomalies in the results.
Accelerators, detection devices, and computers were state-of-the-art technology but they were just tools. The information was in the data.
I shared the experience of many during recent decades: I prepared numerous resumes for the newly developed (again) Corporate Database. In 2001, I expressed displeasure with my academic department for sending me a form to provide information for the new department database that was included in the label on the envelope in which the form was received.
I excelled in FORTRAN but I also learned to appreciate COBOL. My working community seemed to like IDEF0; I liked IDEF1X. BPwin was favored by business people; I liked ERwin. My co-workers worked on Conventional Planning and Execution and JDS (Joint Deployment System); I worked on RUM (Resource and Unit Monitoring) and UNIREP.
I have been trained (or learned) that the signal is in the data.
I believe one of the quotes sometimes attributed to Yogi Berra is, “You can hear a lot by just listening.”
If you just listened to a Breitbart interview on CNN, you would have heard that the tape wasn’t about Shirley Sherrod; it was about the NAACP. If you just listened to the “excerpted “tape, you could hear many in the audience chuckle. That was supposed to be the “message” the blogger wanted us to hear.
The Shirley Sherrod incident illustrates the Fog of War. Since it’s not a real war, collateral damage to Shirley Sherrod can be minimized. In a real war, few victims are as lucky.
Gen. Lewis W. Walt, USMC, had a reputation for relieving officers of their command. His view was to protect the units by getting rid of all the bad officers. There were enough good Marines that could fill in for the good ones that were relieved.
“Teachable Moments” may have the same experience as Lessons Learned. People have suggested changing the name to “Lessons Observed”. The rationale is that it is a more descriptive title. The lesson may be observed (possibly, again) but we don’t seem to be able to Learn It. Would the more accurate description for Teachable Moments be “Regrettable Moments”?
(DR)2H
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