Mission creep..............................

 

more fun here

Information overload........................part two

     In theory, the ongoing explosion in information should make the right answers more obvious.  In practice, though, being surrounded by data often makes it harder to decide.
     This inability to take advantage of data as it becomes more plentiful is called "information blindness."  Just as snow blindness refers to people losing the capacity to distinguish trees from hills under a blanket of powder, so information blindness refers to our mind's tendency to stop absorbing data when there's too much to take in.

-Charles Duhigg,  Smarter Faster Better:  The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business

Yeow......................

On consistency.........

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
-RWE

In case you missed it the first time......................

Believing in the importance of full disclosure blogging: please be
advised that this blogger never even came close to taking a
statistics course.  Thank you.

On wretched excess...................

“Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a
perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-
minute shopping - or attaches the name of St. Patrick to the
day of the year that bartenders fear most.”

-Jon Anderson