Archive for May, 2007
Sometimes an IQ Trainwreck just gets you in the …
Over on the website of Information Impact (Larry P. English’s consulting firm) a list of “Publicly exposed IQ Problems” is maintained. Occasionally we like to pop over and see what Larry’s people have spotted in the media that we might have missed.
One that got the (male) administrator of this site right in the *ahem* was […]CSI - won’t get fooled again?
According to The Register the UK’s police forces have a bit of an IQ trainwreck with their police DNA database (like the one that they use on cop shows like CSI to absolutely identify the criminal with flashing lights and snazzy computer graphics -only slightly slower and less ‘rock and roll’ in the user interface […]
A healthcare trainwreck
Following on from cases of people having stomachs removed in error last year, we find the following story from the Irish Healthcare system where the quality of information used to tell women whether they had or didn’t have breast cancer didn’t meet or exceed expectations (was plain wrong) and now all tests have to be […]
