from Amazon
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Stats v Observation
Excellent article, especially for PSYC 101 readers. However, I think this can be worded better:
The human brain just doesn’t do this naturally, especially over a large number of events and/or a long period of time. So even if he could observe a prospects performance through a completely rational framework, he’d be unable to properly couch the prospect’s level of performance in the context of his peers without the use of quantitative methods.
I don’t know what “quantitative methods” actually means. Is it simply to assign a numeric value to a subjective impression? Because all scouts do that, as evidenced by their 20-80 scale. Words accompanies those numbers, but those numbers are a “shortcut” for what they want to say.
Or is he trying to say something else?