Quotes About Measurement

Seeing progress in changing numbers makes the repetitive fascinating and creates a positive feedback loop. Once again, the act of measuring is often more important than what you measure. To quote the industrial statistician George Box: "Every model is wrong, but some are useful.

REMEMBER: it is impossible to evaluate, or even understand, anything that you cannot measure." 80

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you, just measure it in inches."—Andy Warhol

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Andy Grove had the answer: For every metric, there should be another 'paired' metric that addresses adverse consequences of the first metric.

If you can't measure it, you can't improve it.

Rule #5: Whenever possible, measure your progress in body fat percentage, NOT total pounds. The scale can deceive and derail you. For instance, it's common to gain muscle while simultaneously losing fat on the SCD. That's exactly what you want, but the scale number won't move, and you will get frustrated. In place of the scale, I use DEXA scans, a BodyMetrix home ultrasound device, or calipers with a gym professional (I recommend the Jackson-Pollock 7-point method).

What gets measured gets managed." –Peter Drucker

no puedes medirlo, no puedes mejorarlo.

What gets measured gets managed.

Lo que puede medirse, puede manejarse.» PETER DRUCKER,

The books Superforecasting (by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner) and How to Measure Anything (by Douglas W. Hubbard) have some good advice on how to improve your ability to make accurate predictions. And Decisive (by Chip Heath and Dan Heath) explains four of the biggest judgment errors (like framing your decision too narrowly, or letting temporary emotions cloud your judgment) and gives tips for combating them.

In place of the scale, I use DEXA scans, a BodyMetrix home ultrasound device, or

What gets measured gets managed. —PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author of 31 books, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom

starting from any topological space, we construct an algebraic object, in this case a group. If two spaces are homeomorphic, then their fundamental groups (and higher homotopy groups) must be isomorphic. This is richer than the original idea of just measuring the number of holes, since a group contains more information than just a number.

what gets measured can be improved.

All personalities can be measured according to two or three basic biologically determined dimensions.

Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.

When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what you are being measured against, it's empowering.

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He had that extra four or five inches of neck which disqualifies a man for high honors in the beauty competition

Academic training in beauty is a sham. When we love a woman, we don't start measuring her legs.

From 10 to 20 percent were functionally impaired as measured by the self-test SF-36.

we quite unselfconsciously assumed we were the measure of all things. That was how we approached them. And suddenly I saw not only that we weren't the measure of all things, but that there was no measure.