[Sigia-l] TMI

[Russ Unger]

Is there a reason that you are SPAMMING the list with repeated content?
A cursory glance at your content today, Sunday, February 6, 2005,
reminded me very much of the content you supplied us back in November...

I mean, was this intentional or an accident?  And if intentional, can
you provide some background as to why?

Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Listera
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 1:17 AM
> To: SIGIA-L
> Subject: [Sigia-l] Less info -> better results
> 
> 
> Malcolm ("The Tipping Point") Gladwell's new book, "Blink" 
> ("a book about
> rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that happens in a 
> blink of an
> eye") has an interesting example:
> 
> One of the stories I tell in "Blink" is about the Emergency 
> Room doctors at
> Cook County Hospital in Chicago. That's the big public 
> hospital in Chicago,
> and a few years ago they changed the way they diagnosed heart 
> attacks. They
> instructed their doctors to gather less information on their 
> patients: they
> encouraged them to zero in on just a few critical pieces of 
> information
> about patients suffering from chest pain--like blood pressure and the
> ECG--while ignoring everything else, like the patient's age 
> and weight and
> medical history. And what happened? Cook County is now one of the best
> places in the United States at diagnosing chest pain.
> 
> Not surprisingly, it was really hard to convince the 
> physicians at Cook
> County to go along with the plan, because, like all of us, they were
> committed to the idea that more information is always better.
> 
<http://gladwell.com/blink/index.html>

>Ziya

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Listera
> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 12:08 AM
> To: SIGIA-L
> Subject: [Sigia-l] TMI
> 
> 
> If you're a fan of football and Malcolm Gladwell (author of 
> "The Tipping
> Point" and the new "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without 
> Thinking"), here's
> an interesting interview on ESPN:
> 
> In "Blink," I talk about how we can turn ER doctors from terrible
> decision-makers when it comes to diagnosing chest pain into 
> great decision
> makers simply by limiting the amount of information they are 
> given about a
> patient. Load them down with every conceivable piece of data, 
> and they have
> real difficulty distinguishing patients with heartburn from 
> patients who are
> experiencing a real heart attack. Limit them to three or four 
> crucial pieces
> of data, though, and they do a great job.
> 
<http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=merron/050203>

"Blink" looks at the notion of too-much-info, rapid cognition and expert
reactions, with interesting observations and conclusions. Terribly
relevant
for IAs.
 
<http://www.gladwell.com/blink/>

Ziya
Nullius in Verba 



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