Actually, Matthias, if Jerry is Historical Materialist, he can make such a statement :) When quantity reaches a threshold level, it brings about the emergence of a new quality of the object.
Lubomir
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Subject: Re: Qualitative and Quantitative Information
Not according to Henry Bergson. Probably he just turned in his grave...
Matthias
> Quantities are qualities.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> On 5/17/14 8:24 AM, "Don Norman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> ​Roger Martin of U. Toronto and I just had an on-stage discussion
>> at the IIT/Institute of Design Strategy Conference​ in Chicago
>> (moderated by Patrick Whitney).
>>
>> Roger made a very interesting point about the need to combine both
>> qualitative and quantitative information (he called these "intuitive"
>> and
>> "analytical" -- but I detest the word "intuitive" because it doesn't
>> mean what most people think it means)
>>
>> During the discussion of this, a new insight (at least for me) emerged:
>> that the transformation between qual and quant was via testing.
>>
>> In the form of Human-Centered Design that i practice and preach,
>> which I now call Observe, Make, Test (TOM -- letters restructured to
>> make it
>> pronounceable):
>>
>> - Observations are qualitative
>> - ​Making can be sketching, drawing, prototyping -- think of
>> this as
>> instantiation
>> - Testing transforms the qualitative Observations into quantitative
>> information, via the Made material​
>>
>> ​This argument requires considerable elaboration, but I wondered if
>> this gorup can provide constructive critique of the notion.
>>
>> Part of this is to try to transform the argument about quantitative
>> versus qualitative to eliminate the word "versus" with something else
>> ("combined with"?​). The point is that each serves a different
>> purpose, and both are often needed.
>>
>> don
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Ken Friedman
>> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>
>>> Roger Martin and you are both correct in stating that “design
>>> thinking is not about providing proof but about insights that change
>>> the meaning of situations.â€
>>>
>>> David Sless is correct in arguing that testing and evidence help us
>>> to choose among better and worse design solutions before
>>> implementing them.
>>>
>>> Design thinking is one kind of design process. Evidence-based
>>> testing is another.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Don Norman
>> Director, Design at UC San Diego: Think Observe Make
>> Nielsen Norman Group, IDEO Fellow
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