Statistics: It Could be the Heisenberg Principle -- Yet, I'm Uncertain...

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Statistics:
It Could be the Heisenberg Principle -- Yet, I'm Uncertain...

Dear Readers:

Firstly, note that the reference above has nothing to do with a trophy or with any organized sport inbolving a puck or any other projectile. It involves the notion of observation bias and the inherent uncertainty which surrounds it.

In basic terms, Heisenberg stated (probably in German), the act of our observing events actually influences them. While he was likely applying this to the notion of locating any particular electron orbiting an atom at any given moment, it metaphorically extrapololates itself to the notion of "before you judge the data, judge the source." In reviewing the results of surveys, polls, studies and the like, the first job is to investigate the influences (financial, industrial, personal, temporal, etc.) that "motivated" [either consciously or subconsciously] the researchers to do the research -- and often the priority of "selling a point of view" over merely "objectively discovering the truth" without any preconceived notion or extraneous pressures or influences.

Poll readers beware! The information which you are receiving may be marketing or publicity thinly-veiled as "objective reporting." Need an example? FOX NEWS: FAIR AND BALANCED REPORTING. (chuckle). Need another: The US Labor Department Statistics about unemployment and jobs lost. Tell Americans who cannot find employment anywhere, or who have just given up trying, or who have just reached the end of their unemployment benefits that we are "coming out of the recession," or that we've "turned the corner."

Caveat emptor.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle


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SUBLIMINAL and NON-VERBAL MESSAGES

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From a recent message on TWITTER: To what extent are you being influenced by subliminal and non-verbal messages? http://aboutDouglasCastle.b... #TNNW #IEP #Obama.

Note: If in excess of 80% of all interpersonal communication is non-verbal (or not consciously perceivable), its influence is pervasive. If you understood it better, you could very likely 1) recognize your own responses to it, and 2) use it as a tool to gain much better control of negotiations, presentations and every other type of social and business exchange. Would you like to learn more? Would you like to wield this power? It does not involve witchcraft, voodoo or the supernatural. It is simply a product of applied science...

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
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