Here's a clear measure of lives saved from rules such as checklists (although it probably covers more than just checklists): You Get What You Pay For: Result-Based Compensation for Health Care, published in the Washington and Lee Law Review. See in particular page 9 of the pdf, which says adoption of a systems-based approach caused the death rate from surgical anesthesia to drop by over two orders of magnitude without any corresponding advance in medical understanding of anesthesia.
>>Why not just ask those same experts what they think?
>Simple. There are way too many of them and the Pentagon doesn't want to pay them all civillian contractor fees.
A more important reason is that the experts aren't always motivated to be honest. Sen. Daschle (in a CNBC interview) just provided a good example of where this would be useful. After denouncing the idea that markets provide good information, he ended up talking about the bad intelligence we got about Iraqi WMD. His failure to suggest any solution suggests that he isn't serious about preventing this from happening again. But if the problem was pressure to produce the conclusions that the boss had already decided upon, a futures market that traded on what WMD would be found by date X would have done a good deal to avoid the problem.
The press release also falsely claims that Bill Bales co-founded Quote.com. Quote.com was founded in late 1993, and made a profit in the fiscal year ending Sept. 1995. Bill joined Quote.com in the fall of 1995.
He also misled Quote.com about at least one important issue while he was employed there.
Instead of trying to distinguish Free Software from Open Software, how about an entry that tries to stomp out the assumption that "free" refers to the price:
Free Software: software that is not entangled (i.e. by a bad license).
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Here's a clear measure of lives saved from rules such as checklists (although it probably covers more than just checklists): You Get What You Pay For: Result-Based Compensation for Health Care, published in the Washington and Lee Law Review. See in particular page 9 of the pdf, which says adoption of a systems-based approach caused the death rate from surgical anesthesia to drop by over two orders of magnitude without any corresponding advance in medical understanding of anesthesia.
>>Why not just ask those same experts what they think?
>Simple. There are way too many of them and the Pentagon doesn't want to pay them all civillian contractor fees.
A more important reason is that the experts aren't
always motivated to be honest.
Sen. Daschle (in a CNBC interview) just provided a
good example of where this would be useful. After
denouncing the idea that markets provide good
information, he ended up talking about the bad
intelligence we got about Iraqi WMD. His failure
to suggest any solution suggests that he isn't
serious about preventing this from happening again. But if the problem was pressure to produce
the conclusions that the boss had already decided
upon, a futures market that traded on what WMD
would be found by date X would have done a good
deal to avoid the problem.
Quote.com was founded in late 1993, and made a profit in the fiscal year ending Sept. 1995. Bill joined Quote.com in the fall of 1995.
He also misled Quote.com about at least one important issue while he was employed there.
Free Software: software that is not entangled (i.e. by a bad license).