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- From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn)
- Subject: Re: Will we keep ignoring this productivity issue?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.084032@eklektix.com>
- Summary: but...what is it, then?
- Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado
- References: <1776@aviary.Stars.Reston.Unisys.COM> <1992Nov11.055130@eklektix.com> <RICH.92Nov11095140@rich.kastle.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:40:32 GMT
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- rich@kastle.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
- [why do we ignore as much as a 20-fold difference in productivity?]
- > Perhaps because there's nothing that can be done about it?
- >
- > I think that those with the 20-fold advantage have a gift, not a
- >skill. It's rather like perfect pitch or photographic memory. Or,
- >put another way, can you train someone out of color blindness?
-
- or whatever...
-
- But back to the question. In terms of what Rich said - is there anything
- that can be done about it? Is it a gift, or an aptitude that just happens
- to be developed in certain circumstances, or what?
-
- Maybe there's nothing there we can take advantage of...or maybe there is.
- We don't know. Back to Munck's question: why aren't we looking at it?
-
- It might be a hard problem. It might not yield a useful solution. But we
- don't know, because we haven't looked.
- --
- Dick Dunn rcd@raven.eklektix.com -or- raven!rcd Boulder, Colorado
- ...Simpler is better.
-