Comments on: Everyone’s an Expert (part 2) http://www.davejenkins.com/2010/06/24/everyones-an-expert-part-2/ Ecommerce Strategy in Asia Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:45:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kirk http://www.davejenkins.com/2010/06/24/everyones-an-expert-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-37892 Kirk Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:28:19 +0000 http://www.davejenkins.com/?p=261#comment-37892 mmmm, magic quadrant. Normal Distributions have been blowing my mind recently, ever since I had to unholy task of measuring something not feasible to measure. The act of tracking the events would be more work than any possible savings from optimizations. Enter an unknown population standard deviation t-test, and while you are not 100% certain, 99.99% tends to send those management types scurrying back to their corner cubicles. The alternatives were horrible bureaucratic processes I imagine many of those large companies you mentioned have been using for years. A new day cometh. mmmm, magic quadrant. Normal Distributions have been blowing my mind recently, ever since I had to unholy task of measuring something not feasible to measure. The act of tracking the events would be more work than any possible savings from optimizations. Enter an unknown population standard deviation t-test, and while you are not 100% certain, 99.99% tends to send those management types scurrying back to their corner cubicles. The alternatives were horrible bureaucratic processes I imagine many of those large companies you mentioned have been using for years.

A new day cometh.

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