Models and Insight

In reading through Ian Stewart’s The Mathematics of Life, I came across an interesting statement on models and modeling (pp. 273-274). It speaks both to the approximate nature of models and to the observation that exactness is neither the prerequisite for usefulness nor even always desirable. These three models of the foot-and-mouth epidemic show how […]

Business Survival Rates

This post was spurred by a recent discussion of the massage therapy Entry-Level Analysis Project (ELAP). The project itself concerns expanding a job task analysis into a set of competencies. However, the description of project motivations contains the statement that inconsistencies in massage education have resulted in “too many massage school graduates who experience short, […]