Precision

March 2026

• Mar 2, 2026ConceptsKey Decision-Making Terms People MisuseWhy decision vocabulary changes the analysis. Knight's 1921 distinction holds that risk describes situations where outcomes are known and probabilities can be meaningfully assigned, while uncertainty does not permit that, so applying statistical tools to the second is a category error. The article also separates credence, a personal belief, from probability, and Simon's 1955 satisficing from optimizing.18 MIN49.5k
• Mar 2, 2026ConceptsFrequently Confused Cognitive Terms ExplainedPairs that get used interchangeably but should not: intelligence and wisdom, knowledge and understanding, thinking and reasoning, logic and critical thinking, memory and recall, learning and memorization. Derek Muller's 2008 physics video study is the surprise: students watching clear, correct explanations rated them highly and felt they had learned, while their conceptual understanding barely moved. Videos that confronted misconceptions felt worse and taught more.18 MIN25.8k

October 2025

• Oct 15, 2025Work SkillsEditing for Clarity: Techniques for PrecisionLockheed Martin's software produced pound-force seconds while NASA's navigation software expected Newton-seconds, and the interface document described the parameter without stating which system applied. NASA's Mishap Investigation Board reported in November 1999. One sentence defining the required units for each parameter would have surfaced the mismatch before launch. The page covers pronoun and scope ambiguity, vague quantifiers, and the adversarial reader technique.17 MIN49.3k