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Dirty Rotten Strategies: How We Trick Ourselves and Others into Solving the Wrong Problems Precisely (repost)

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Dirty Rotten Strategies: How We Trick Ourselves and Others into Solving the Wrong Problems Precisely (repost)

Ian I. Mitroff, "Dirty Rotten Strategies: How We Trick Ourselves and Others into Solving the Wrong Problems Precisely"
2009 | ISBN: 0804759960 | PDF | 232 pages | 3 MB

A pleasant surprise for anyone frustrated with the way complex problems are misconstrued and dumbed-down in daily life, this challenge from business scholars Mitroff and Silvers goes out to media, higher education, health care, and American institutions ranging from government to celebrity, to demonstrate the relevance of concepts in statistical analysis known as "type three" and "type four" errors. Though they're given to philosophical ranting, the authors never struggle with their complex ideas, keeping the text readable for anyone with problems to solve, resolve, absolve or dissolve (i.e., everyone). Those familiar with statistics will find their frustrations with the false type-one/type-two error dichotomy well articulated and addressed, but the theories will connect with anyone who enjoys thinking outside the box. The pair also advocates a new way of considering problems, not just a way of prioritizing them, demonstrating the necessity of new modes of critical thinking when approaching the orthodoxy of American institutions.