Are Metrics Blinding Our Perception?
Posted on 22 December, 2009 – 12:51 PM(from New York Times, found by Aldo Benini)
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — The Trixie Telemetry company believes in hard, quantifiable truths. It believes that there is a right time and wrong time to breast-feed a baby. It believes that certain hours and rooms are better for a child’s naps than others and that data can establish this, too. It believes that parents should track how long their infants have gone without soiling a diaper and devote themselves to beating this “high score.”
To these ends, the company sells what is a coveted service in this age: a dashboard. It invites you to enter data on your baby’s life, and it produces color-coded charts, Sleep Probability Distributions, digestive analysis and such, to help parents make data-based decisions.
Don’t laugh, because Trixie Telemetry is made from the essence of our age… >read the rest of the article on the NYT website here<
Tags: Information / Communication Technology (ICT), quantative, research,
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