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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Perceptual failures with time and exponential growth – 3
The following covers two issues of perceptual problems relating to time sequences and exponential growth from Dr. Dörner’s book, The Logic of Failure. I highly reccomend this book. Sadly, I get no commission. But the book is well worth your … Continue reading
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Perceptual failures with time and exponential growth – 2
A short diversion Leonard Mlodinow wrote The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives. In this book the author covers many topics relating to how our minds do not correctly perceive random events. The book is well worth reading. It … Continue reading
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Perceptual failures with time sequences and exponential growth
In the book, The Logic of Failure, Dr. Dörner gives an example of an exponentially increasing operation and how we misperceive that. This one example provides a lot of site into our cognitive impairment in dealing with time. Our brains … Continue reading
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Abstraction: the human’s primrose path to disaster
This is a return to the last few topics from the book, The Logic of Failure. Abstraction, generalization, and models: the road to success and failure Abstraction or modeling provides an extremely helpful tool to solving problems. Modeling is the … Continue reading
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Multiple-criteria weighted ranking — an example of the simple way
For this example I will use the same example as earlier. As a refresher following are the options from which to. Following that, are the criteria. On the criteria, some have been simplified and consolidated to make this example easier … Continue reading
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