by david allan van nostrand | Mar 30, 2020 | Shoot the messenger, The Myopia of Experts
One of the joys that came my way from serving many years in the research trenches around the world was having a front row seat to history. In hundreds of investigations of all sizes and shapes, I got to see up close how decisions got made and how things evolved over...
by david allan van nostrand | Mar 23, 2020 | Items in the News, Organizational Behavior, The Myopia of Experts, Unintended Consequences
Konrad Putzier wrote in the Wall Street Journal how after years of crowding office workers into ever-smaller spaces, we are finally coming to realize that our high-density offices are ideal places to spread disease. Because so many of us are spending so much time in...
by david allan van nostrand | Mar 16, 2020 | Gatekeepers, Items in the News
Evidence is defined as the available body of information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or untrue. Chain of custody is a legal term for the rigorous procedure that is to be followed and documented when evidence is collected, held, transferred,...
by david allan van nostrand | Mar 9, 2020 | How to tell good research from bad, Items in the News, Using Information
People are methodologists without realizing it until I ask them if they’ve ever done a jigsaw puzzle. Most of us have, usually as children, and we solved them by following a prescribed system of rules while adhering to a strict set of principles, automatically and...
by david allan van nostrand | Mar 2, 2020 | How to tell good research from bad, Items in the News, Misinformation traps
We passed the entrance to this market research facility several times because we had automatically assumed we would come upon their roadside sign. No sign and not even a street number, just the rusted oil drums and concrete rubble you see in the photo. This got me to...
