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There are books with a similar name. This books links are
1. Announcement prisma.dieti.unina.it/index.…
2. Publishers link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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Years ago I saw a tech brief in an engineering newsletter about a revolutionary new type of linear actuator.
I thought "wow, that's a great idea!"
Then I never saw it again.
It worked like this: picture 3 tape measures pointing upwards & held together at the center. Each is driven by a motor. When joined together, they form a rigid triangular beam that can extend great distances & then retract back down to nothing.
I recently tried finding more info about it. Turns out it's called the Zippermast. The first patent dates back to 2006 (US20060261207A1).
The reason why I never heard of it again became very apparent as soon as I visited their website & saw where these are used...
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Data Literacy Basics - Part 1
Below are five foundational concepts that EVERYONE should understand (in no particular order). Also, let me know what you would add.
1. Outliers rarely disprove trends.
I see this a lot. People, when presented with a statistic, will often try and discredit it by bringing up edge cases, or outliers. The reality is data, in general, has natural variation, even within a distribution or trend.
We all know this. If I were to say “The average height for an American male is about 5 feet 9 inches,” but my friend chimed in with “That can’t be true! My uncle is 6 feet 8 inches,” you surely wouldn’t agree that single data point disproves my statistic. That's an easy example as we are all familiar with the height of people, but for data we aren’t accustomed with this becomes very important to keep in mind.
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