Dr. Goodnight's education is in the area of statistics. How quaint.
Number one rule of statistics: Statistics have the bias of the 'facts gathered'. Number two rule of statistics: It is easy to tell a lie by postulating a statistic as a fact. SAS's business is based on this. The so called sophisticated solutions SAS touts are based on feeder systems such as an ERP and most of those lack a solid foundation. I believe his argument is based on method - mine is based on content. I'll let you decide what is true. I ask those of us involved with expert systems and AI to weigh in on this.
Hmm This is an interesting situation. "The Internet allows the great unwashed to communicate" & "PAY attention - can you do that for at least a minute and a half?"
Let's see how stupid a CEO can be? Most are clueless when it comes to understanding what a Decision Support system really is. Many CFO's don't understand what an ERP is. Most CMO's don't understand what internet media is. Do I sound biased yet? I have been in this 'industry' for over 25 years and speak from experience.
As many of the remarks under this topic point out that kid's today have the attention span of a fruit fly and are so over stimulated that they can't think. Critical THINKING is very hard to learn. Critical thinking allows one to properly filter the information they receive.
We need to slow down the bombardment of so called 'information' kids receive or we will have more and more blithering idiots that think food comes from the microwave and the English language is comprised of TTFN CU LTR.
To sum this up in terms of averages a High School Education 60 years ago equals what most average College Graduates have today! No amount of technology will replace spending the time an individual needs to understand. So called Information without context is simply garbage information.
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Dr. Goodnight's education is in the area of statistics. How quaint. Number one rule of statistics: Statistics have the bias of the 'facts gathered'. Number two rule of statistics: It is easy to tell a lie by postulating a statistic as a fact. SAS's business is based on this. The so called sophisticated solutions SAS touts are based on feeder systems such as an ERP and most of those lack a solid foundation. I believe his argument is based on method - mine is based on content. I'll let you decide what is true. I ask those of us involved with expert systems and AI to weigh in on this.
Hmm This is an interesting situation. "The Internet allows the great unwashed to communicate" & "PAY attention - can you do that for at least a minute and a half?" Let's see how stupid a CEO can be? Most are clueless when it comes to understanding what a Decision Support system really is. Many CFO's don't understand what an ERP is. Most CMO's don't understand what internet media is. Do I sound biased yet? I have been in this 'industry' for over 25 years and speak from experience. As many of the remarks under this topic point out that kid's today have the attention span of a fruit fly and are so over stimulated that they can't think. Critical THINKING is very hard to learn. Critical thinking allows one to properly filter the information they receive. We need to slow down the bombardment of so called 'information' kids receive or we will have more and more blithering idiots that think food comes from the microwave and the English language is comprised of TTFN CU LTR. To sum this up in terms of averages a High School Education 60 years ago equals what most average College Graduates have today! No amount of technology will replace spending the time an individual needs to understand. So called Information without context is simply garbage information.