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Well, what you do is, if you take any one of you here, and put you in front of a screen, and
measure
your galvanic skin response, and show pictures on the screen, I can
measure
how you sweat when you see an object, like a table or an umbrella.
You take the patient and show him pictures on the screen and
measure
his galvanic skin response.
You have to
measure
its specific gravity, OK?" So, they completely miss the metaphorical meaning.
However, these two countries have the identical GINI Coefficient, which is a
measure
of income equality.
Until some economists said, you know, is that the right way to
measure
CO2?
And they said, let's
measure
CO2 per household, and when they did that, the maps just flipped, coolest in the center city, warmer in the suburbs, and red hot in these exurban "drive till you qualify" neighborhoods.
You know, there's a small country nestled in the Himalayan Mountains, far from these beautiful mountains, where the people of the Kingdom of Bhutan have decided to do something different, which is to
measure
their gross national happiness rather than their gross national product.
You know the phrase, you can manage what you
measure?
Well, you should
measure
what you care about.
So let's take an example,
measure
the things that are important in your business.
So the message here is,
measure
what you care about and lead the change, and don't wait a hundred years.
The overall time that we have for our narrative, our lifespan, has been increasing, but the smallest measure, the moment, has shrunk.
It has shrunk because our instruments enable us in part to
measure
smaller and smaller units of time, and this in turn has given us a more granular understanding of the material world, and this granular understanding has generated reams of data that our brains can no longer comprehend and for which we need more and more complicated computers.
All of this to say that the gap between what we can perceive and what we can
measure
is only going to widen.
Now these models are not just visually appealing, but they are also geometrically accurate, which means researchers can now
measure
the distance between trees, calculate surface area, the volume of vegetation, and so on, all of which are important information for monitoring the health of these forests.
So they said, "We probably need to
measure
quality so we know and can learn from what's best."
So they in fact spent two years debating, "So what is quality in hip surgery?" "Oh, we should
measure
this." "No, we should
measure
that."
We're creating a global community, and a large global community, where we'll be able to
measure
and compare what we achieve.
We're bringing together leading physicians and patients to discuss, disease by disease, what is really quality, what should we measure, and to make those standards global.
The group discussed, how do we
measure
quality today?
Can we
measure
it better than we do?
Two of our instruments are very unique: one is called an imaging spectrometer that can actually
measure
the chemical composition of plants as we fly over them.
Now, many of you may have noticed there's a problem at this point, and that is that it takes a long time to
measure
whether those outcomes have happened.
To make a cave map, you have to set up survey stations every few feet inside the cave, and you use a laser to
measure
the distance between those stations.
Then you use a compass and an inclinometer to
measure
the direction the cave is headed and
measure
the slope of the floor and the ceilings.
Now those of you taking trigonometry, that particular type of math is very useful for making maps like this because it allows you to
measure
heights and distances without actually having to go there.
If you have a loss and you feel incredibly unhappy, and then, six months later, you are still deeply sad, but you're functioning a little better, it's probably grief, and it will probably ultimately resolve itself in some
measure.
Our daughters have learned to
measure
their worth by the wrong scale.
So I went out and built a phenomenal team of data scientists and researchers and statisticians to build a universal risk assessment tool, so that every single judge in the United States of America can have an objective, scientific
measure
of risk.
I actually believe the problem that we see and the reason that we have these incredible system errors, where we're incarcerating low-level, nonviolent people and we're releasing high-risk, dangerous people, is that we don't have an objective
measure
of risk.
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