Re: [ontolog-forum] if you cannot measure...

[Gary Berg-Cross <gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree there are measurment and scale issues. Scoring methods, for such things as risk analysis and investment strategies, typically do not make any allowance for human (analysts) bias as they assign “scores”. There is rarely an objective basis for this.  Even numerically equal amounts aren’t always phenomenologically the same to  humans.  The phenomena of loss aversion shows that if we lose $100 it is not compensated by a $100 windfall – we lose more satisfaction than we gain. Loss aversion is a built in cognitive bias.

 

Gary Berg-Cross,Ph.D.
gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx      http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GaryBergCross
SOCoP Executive Secretary
Knowledge Strategies
Potomac, MD
240-426-0770

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:18 AM, FERENC KOVACS <f.kovacs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In the practical world of business, such as in car manufacturing, there are proven methods of giving account of multitudes as well as unary objects. Moreover, they have a way to assemble them with methods to measure the number of mistakes/faults/rejects made in the process which are crucial as feedback to improve the methods applied.

In the SW world created for the representation of knowledge people are more interested in magic than reality in the sense that the do not reveal the mental routes leading to the outcome. Knowledge representations are sorted morphologically, that is alphabetically, because that is the only sort key (order) mathematicians know besides numbers. This fallacy  is echoed in Kuhn's paper as well as by John Dewey.

The current theoretical approach to semantic analysis as used in AI or applied MT is certainly nothing to write home about, especially, if you look at the actual products in contrast to ambitions.
Biology is an experimental science and look what they get in other languages to share by using "theoretical sound scientific solutions, just because computing deals with numbers"
http://www.molecularstation.com/
http://www5.tranexp.com:2000/Translate/index.shtml?from=eng&to=hun&type=url&url="">www.molecularstation.com%2Fabout-us-molecular-station%2F>
Ferenc

_________________________________________________________________
Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/
Config Subscr: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/ontolog-forum/
Unsubscribe: mailto:ontolog-forum-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/
Community Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/
To join: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid1J
To Post: mailto:ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 

-- 

_________________________________________________________________
Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/  
Config Subscr: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/ontolog-forum/  
Unsubscribe: mailto:ontolog-forum-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/
Community Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/ 
To join: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid1J
To Post: mailto:ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx    (01)