Wednesday, October 15, 2008

More Conversations

Tad ErmitaƱo:
  • Multiple indicators (happiness/sadness, amount of garbage) can be used to illustrate a point
  • Lots of pizzas ordered at the white house => late night meetings => national emergencies
  • An investigative approach to the data; inferential approach
When I told Tad that one problem in the Philippines is the lack of available, reliable data, he responds by pointing out that (and it's hard to remember exactly how he strung his arguments together) that the lack of data (or, rather, lack of order) protects anarchic, counter-cultural expressions.

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3 comments:

The Lovegangsters said...

hahaha. I agree to Tad. Funnily the inefficient system and loopholes do allow us to carry out work.

Tad Ermitano said...

Tad here! Just wanted to follow up and say that the lack of order (which make it hard to collect data) protects not just counter-cultural expressions, but anything that is criminalized, forbidden, disapproved of, or simply considered strange. Inefficiency is the friend of crime but also of liberty.With bad maps and directories, censors, the police, tax collectors, building inspectors, telemarketers and missionaries can only perform piecemeal and sporadically.

Diego said...

"Inefficiency is the friend of crime but also of liberty." Great way to sum it up.