Help Me Disprove This Saying!

[Sir_Doris]

@BobLibDem

My wife farts in the car. I open the window. I am 100% sure I have improved the air quality, but I cannot measure it.

But it is possible. Sure, it’s subjective, but that doesn’t means its impossible.

Another Primate, I’m not convinced the positions that you and your boss are adopting in this arguement are really that far apart. In my subjective judgement, obviously.

He is basically saying, we need to attatch numbers to some empirical observation so that we can analyse, reason about it, and form strategies to change it; if we cannot do the former, we cannot do the latter.

You appear to be saying if I cannot measure something, I cannot analyse or reason about it, but it’s possible to change it. What I can’t know is whether or not some change has occurred.

Basically phenomena occur in the empirical world, we analyse and reason about these phenomena in the theoretical world. The means by which we do this is measurement.

[Knowed_Out]

I’m thinking your boss’s statement is a variation of “It can only be improved if it can be measured.”

Improving a product involves measurement of its dimensions, performance, and quality. Improving one’s grades are relying on number measurements. Improving one’s attitude is based on a measure of past attitudes. Improving taste can be measured by polling sample populations. If most of them agree the taste has improved, it officially has.

Air studies can be made on elemetal makeup in parts per million of Mrs. BobLibDem’s lethal molecules before and after she farted in the car, relying on measurement of the fart molecules.

Improving means to make better. You only know if a condition is better or worse by using measurement, whether it’s linear or subjective.