![]() ![]() ![]() The charts aren’t just about production control, meeting product specs or targets. That’s because the ‘patient’ has a culture and value system that rejects them. Often, little or no meaningful change follows. With most big, top-down change efforts, CEOs hire consulting firms to jab them into their employees thinking that quick-fix training and brainwashing with the latest fad will improve a company’s health. Without grasping its true purpose, most managers view it as one of a bunch of tools used in process improvement programmes like Six Sigma and Lean. It’s his Statistical Process Control Chart (SPC Chart), one of the most important discoveries in management. Almost a hundred years ago, statistician Dr Walter Shewhart devised it for production settings. It cuts through noise and leads to more effective decisions. ![]() Yet, we can do it with a method described in my 2020 article. The trouble is we shy away from what we think is complex maths. Kahneman says only a statistical approach helps. It interferes with the flow of information and makes it tough for anyone bombarded by countless opinions and few, if any facts, to decide how to act in a way where gain exceeds costs. ![]() Decisions on issues in common made by government, business leaders and ‘the science’ all vary. Medics differ when they diagnose and treat illness. In law, judges’ rulings differ on similar cases. He calls it unwanted variability caused by people and systems. After his 50-year focus on bias and its effect on decisions, now it’s ‘Noise’. On that topic, Noise – A Flaw in Human Judgement is Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman’s latest co-authored book. But if it hasn’t been as deadly as the fear mongers claimed it would be, the virus sure has hit the world with deafening, surround sound. So, thankfully we didn’t croak.Įven at my age you have a more than 99% chance of survival if you don’t eat and drink too much of the wrong stuff, or have a life-threatening illness. We both caught the latest version of it a year later but it was no worse than a bad cold or mild flu. However, highly competent doctors and warm, caring medical and nursing staff in Plett Mediclinic bumped me off for a later flight. With pneumonia, a burst lung and stressed heart, Death called me to the boarding gate. Six months later, this nasty virus struck my wife, thankfully not too badly, then me. Why couldn’t the rest of the population have gone to work? The worst that could happen is you die – but, based on evidence so far, probably won’t.” Ted Blackīeing among those in life’s departure lounge, it was tempting the fates. In early May 2020, in a piece on how the virus of mismeasurement leads to mismanagement, I linked it to the world’s strange, panicked reaction to the Covid-19 virus, noting that UK numbers told us “people above age 65 never account for less than 85% of all deaths. – Chris Bateman Covid-19 … a deafening pandemic The data on age-related deaths strongly backs his thesis. As events and emerging data are increasingly showing, these did little to mitigate viral spread. Among the sledgehammer-like responses he’s so critical of was heavy lockdown, blanket vaccination, and mask-wearing. It’s written by a smart and successful entrepreneur who himself – being in the more vulnerable upper age bracket – narrowly escaped death from the virus. Instead of drilling down on the special cause of cyclical events as the data emerges and examining excess death history, the ‘experts’ have responded to the common cause, thus creating huge collateral damage to the financial and physical wellbeing of us all. In this rationally argued treatise, the author says that the reaction of governments to Covid-19 has been to respond with panic and a one-size-fits-all, over-the-top ‘solution’ that has done far more harm than good. ![]()
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