I like to collect ideas that could be thought of as new heuristics for analysing problems. Or perhaps I might say, ideas that point out new patterns or ways of perceiving a problem that are important and useful. For example, a while ago I linked to an essay that discussed how some situations do not follow the bell curve, and how this affects the way we think about the homeless issue and also the police violence issue.
Following a link from the last site I made a blog entry about, I’ve just
come across another one of these ‘new way of looking at situations’ ideas-
a concept called ‘positive deviance’. The idea is that you can problem
solve a problematic situation that needs changing by looking for examples
within the situation of people who have already solved the problem, within
the context of the situation, by behaving in an atypical manner. I think
this is a very powerful idea. Here’s the
page that discusses it, along with providing an example of how it worked
to address the problem of malnutrition among children in some parts of
Vietnam.
posted at 19:13 on Fri, 03 Nov, 2006 |
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