'Pop Culture IQ Trainwrecks' Category
A salutory tale of poor IQ
Gizmodo.com occasionally features ‘localisation’ problems (they spell it with a ‘z’, yet another localisation problem). As localisation raises challenges of customer expectation, information design, information presentation and a whole heap of other potential tripwires for Information Quality disasters, this is sometimes a good source of quick examples of how poor quality information can screw up […]
Leap year babies are hopping mad
Information Quality can be defined as “meeting or exceeding ‘information customer’ expectations”.
Today of all days (the 29th February) there will be countless examples of incidents where one particular pool of ‘information consumers’ will fail to have their expectations met. I’m talking, of course, about people who have their birthday today … leap year babies.
Across the […]I’m wrong to the finish, coz I eats my spinach…
Every one knows that spinach is good for you. However it isn’t as good for you as initially thought. Vincent McBurney over at ITToolbox.com wrote a post last year about the ’spinach iron content controversy’ and its effect on people’s thinking about the health benefits of the leafy vegetable.
This qualifies as an IQ Trainwreck for […]
