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May 25, 2004
Understanding interrelationships
In continuing to reread Buckminster Fuller's Critical Path, which I now notice that I appeared to have reviewed at Amazon, where I complained that he told us, rather than showing us, what to do, it occurs to me that despite my BS in mathematics, I almost completely ignored a crucially important branch, namely statistics.
In Fuller's world, principles describe interrelationships in aggregates of observations. The science for studying principles of aggregates of observations we call statistics: "a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters" (source: Google search).
What a shame that I did not choose to learn statistics with a vengence when I had more time, that is, when attending university, or when virtually wringing my hands over my failure as a manager-by-influence, that is, when working as Sun Sigma Black Belt In Training. More evidence that I do not always recognize how good I have it, and when I do, I sit back and enjoy it.
Oh well. You are what you is.
Posted by Mark at May 25, 2004 08:10 AM