by david allan van nostrand | May 20, 2019 | Focus Groups, Gatekeepers, How to tell good research from bad, Misinformation traps
Two slick-talking tailors promised to make a suit of clothes that was so special it would be completely invisible to stupid and incompetent people. The emperor ordered a special suit and later dispatched his most trusted ministers to see how it was coming along. The...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 3, 2023 | Case Study, Human Behavior, The world around us, Using Information
In 2016, I converted the more than 1,000 slides I had built for my classroom lectures at the University of the West Indies into articles that I posted on a new site, LetsTakeACloserLook.com. The subject of most of those early articles was an amalgam of what I call the...
by david allan van nostrand | Feb 17, 2020 | How to tell good research from bad, Misinformation traps
When someone asks “How long is a piece of string?” or “How big is a house?” you know the only right answer is “It depends.” “How much does research cost? We cannot say how much research costs any more than we can say how much...
